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From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: NFS exports question
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:52:28 GMT
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brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:

>In article <stanbDz8rtG.I37@netcom.com>,
>	stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
>: 	I would like to set up my FreeBSD machine so that I can access
>: all the filesystems on it from a reomte machine via an automounter.
>: I other woreds, I have 3 filesystems / , /usr. and /var. I would
>: like then all to appear on the remote machine as /net/mach_name/....
>: 
>: 	So for instance I could do a cd to /net/machine_name/usr/spool
>: and be in that directory on the FreeBSD machine. Linux dose this by default
>: if you export / you get all the filesystems mounted on it exported as
>: one big filesyste,.
>: 
>: 	I thought that I could do something like this with the -alldirs
>: option in /etc/exports, but it doesn't seem to wokr the way I thought it
>: would. Am I using this incorectly ? If so how can I acheive the desired
>: result ?

>You need to export the individual physical mount points, and mount each
>of these from the remote machine.  You can export at most one subdirectory
>of a given physical mountpoint.

	So does this mean that if I have / /usr and /var as seperate
physical partitions, I can't mount all 3 from a remote system ?
If I understad what you are saying I could only mount / and /var or 
/ and /usr. Am I understanding this coreclty ? Or can I get all 3 if
I put 3 lines in /etc/ecports ?


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