can't mount "/" partition

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Mar 4 07:54:00 UTC 2004


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Nabin Limbu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 partition "/boot" and "/" only. I can mount any folder inside "/" partition via nfs without any problem but can't 
> mount "/" partition.
> 
> eg:
> 
> mount 192.168.0.1:/var /mnt ==> works
> 
> but,
> 
> mount 192.168.0.1:/  /mnt ==> doesn't work
> 
> Error message shown:
> mount: 192.168.0.1:/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
> 
> Is there any security feature that denies me to mount "/" partition via nfs or am I missing something?

What does the / entry in your /etc/exports look like?

Mine looks like:

/       192.168.0.3(rw,no_root_squash,nohide,insecure)
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