From: low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting external disk
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:27:04 GMT

We just added a 1.2GB external disk and it mounts just fine on its  
host machine (named bullnext).  However, we have that host machine  
setup as our server (serving user home directories) but I can't see  
the external disk in the /Net directory tree.  I added a line to the  
/etc/fstab file to mount the disk as follows:

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

The /External disk (directory) shows up fine off the root directory  
of the machine that hosts the drive.  However, no other machines on  
our netinfo network see the directory /Net/bullnext/External.  We  
have configured bullnext:/ for NFS export in NFSManager.  Does anyone  
have any hints why the external disk isn't visible to other machines  
on our netinfo network?

Also, a related question.  The documentation says that if we want to  
place users home directories on the external disk to specify a mount  
point of /Users in the /etc/fstab entry.  What I would like to do is  
mount the external disk as /External then use NFS to mount  
/External/Users over the /Users directory on our server, and to do  
the same with /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary.  I tried setting up the  
/Users mount in NFSManager but it wouldn't mount; the boot process  
just sat there saying 'Retrying' - I had to Ctrl-C to break out of  
it.

I'd like to not have to devote the entire disk to just my /Users  
directory.  Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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