NFS puzzle - need help exporting a machines root file system

ramb at sonic.net ramb at sonic.net
Fri Sep 16 14:31:08 UTC 2005


"A. G." <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 07:14 -0700, ramb at sonic.net wrote:
>> This is not the normal NFS root file system question.
>> 
>> I want to export the root file system from machine A and import it
>> on machine B. On B I would like the file system to be mounted
>> as /mnt/A_root.
>> 
>> There are some additional bits that make things more complicated: On A there
>> are several filesystems (not root) that are mounted from B. But I don't need
>> those file systems to be reexported (and I think thats not even possible).
>> 
>> In my specific case A's root file system comes from LVM: /dev/VG/root --> /
>> 
>> I tried putting this in A's /etc/exports file:
>> 
>> / B(rw,sync)
>> 
>
> What does your fstab look like on B?

Well its not really in my fstab, rather in my auto.remote file, but
here is the info:

A -rsize=8192,wsize=8192 A:/

-Ram




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