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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS exports question
Date: 20 Oct 1996 17:18:36 +0100
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In article <stanbDzG53G.GA4@netcom.com>,
stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:
>>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 ?
Yes, you can put all three in your exports file, and mount them all, on
the other box, but you can't export more than one hierarchy of a given
physical filesystem.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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