rullzer

NFS.. different partitions

by rullzer on Nov.05, 2007, under Annoying things, Linux

So this weekend I had some spare time. So I decided to reconfigure the samba domain so that when we get a new pc for my sister (wich will run gentoo… No paying for a windows licence) everyone can login everywhere etc. In order to do that I had to move some files around. But it works.

Now I wanted to share some extra stuf on the server. For example the music, some files, photo’s etc. In windows they are all mounted. So I wanted to do the same on my linux boxes. Should be a piece of cake since a have a share dir on the server that holds all the stuff to be shared.

So I shared that dir via NFS. Mounting went easy. However. all the dirs were empty… Now why is that? Could it be some kind of dark magic? No it is just that NSF (for security probably) can only acces 1 partition per share. So now I have them all shared seperatly. Not a big deal ofcourse. BUt always good to know.

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2 comments for this entry:
  1. bssteph

    If I’m understanding you right, you should look at “nohide” from man 5 exports.

    The server can support nested mounts, but not all clients can.

  2. rullzer

    You are right about the nohide option. However that option is only affected when not using a subnet to share. And well since I’m it is not working. But thanks for the suggestion :)

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