can't mount "/" partition

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 07:51 am, 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

Does the /etc/exports on 192.168.0.1 says that / is exported? What does that 
line says? 

> Is there any security feature that denies me to mount "/" partition via nfs
> or am I missing something?

I don't think so. I've done this many times before.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
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