can't mount "/" partition

[Peter Smith]

I believe NFS refuses to mount a directory which contains a subdirectory
which is mounted, to avoid circular references.

Thus, if "/var" is physically on your "/" partition, and you have "/var"
mounted on another machine via NFS, then you cannot mount "/" as well.

Either make "/var" a separate partition or be content with seeing everything
from a single mount of "/".

At least, that is the way it was under HP-UX; nowadays I use Samba which is
less fussy.

Regards,
Peter Smith

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[mailto:redhat-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja
Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:01 PM
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Subject: Re: can't mount "/" partition


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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