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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: scrantr@ix.netcom.com (Richard Scranton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS exports question Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 04:29:26 GMT Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus Lines: 39 Message-ID: <N.102296.002926.89@SCRANTR> References: <stanbDz8rtG.I37@netcom.com> <5418jr$246@anorak.coverform.lan> <stanbDzG53G.GA4@netcom.com> <54djcs$4ap@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: col-oh1-18.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Oct 21 11:28:42 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Quarterdeck Message Center [1.0] > 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.... > . This is not strictly true. You *can* export multiple directory trees from a single file system, but must format your /etc/exports file differently. /x/nfs /x/tmp /x/home -maproot=bin: -network 223.254.2 -mask 255.255.255.0 /cdrom -maproot=bin: -network 223.254.2 -mask 255.255.255.0 I have a single large file system on a second disk, mounted as /x, and selectively directory trees by including them on the same line. This is unfortunately not well documented. ---- ======================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems, Columbus scrantr@ix.netcom.com