From: low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting external disk
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:10:15 GMT

Thanks for all the replies.  I'll summarize the solution(s).

When adding a second external drive the NeXT documentation says to  
add the following line to /etc/fstab:

    /dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2

where /External is the desired mount point on your host (let's call  
it <hostserver>).  The consensus is that the ,noauto option is  
neither needed nor desired.  I removed it and things appear to work  
well.

However, there is another piece to the puzzle in order to permit  
other machines on the Netinfo network to be able to see and mount the  
new External drive.  Even if the mount on the host machine  
<hostserver> causes the new drive to appear off the root directory,  
say as /External, that drive/directory won't show up under  
/Net/hostserver/External on the other machines on the Netinfo  
network.

The trick is that, since the new disk is another physical device, it  
has to exported separately from <hostserver>.  I ran NFSManager and  
added a separate export entry for /External on <hostserver>.  Then in  
my Netinfo domain I added an entry to mount hostserver:/External as  
/External on the other machines.  Bingo, it works.

Hope this helps.

Thanks again everyone for all the replies.  And Happy Holidays!  I'm  
outta here.

--
Richard Low
Duke University Medical Center
low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu
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