mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock

[John Summerfield]

thomas Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Mikkel. Thank you very much for your answer.
> 
> I tried with:
> []# sudo mount -o nfsvers=2 fedoraserver:/home/mydir
> /home/jonh/server-mydir -t nfs
> and got the same error message :(
> 

Would spelling be important? I can mount exports from nahant-clone on 
latest fedora and debian-stable without any dramas.


> On Dec 12, 2007 5:19 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> thomas Armstrong wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Using Ubuntu 7.10 I want to mount a directory shared on a Fedora
>>> machine with NFS.
>>>
>>> On Fedora machine (fedoraserver):
>>> * edited '/etc/exports' and added:
>>> -----------
>>> /home/mydir/       pc09(rw)
>>> -----------
>>> * /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart
>>>
>>> On Ubuntu machine (pc09)
>>> * mkdir /home/john/server-mydir
>>> * mount -o nfsvers=2 fedoraserver:/home/mydir /home/jonh/server-mydir
>>> -o nfsvers=2
>>>
>>> But I get this error message:
>>> -------
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on fedoraserver:/home/mydir/,
>>>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>> -------
>>>
>>> 'fedoraserver' does exist for 'pc09' and 'pc09' does exist for
>>> 'fedoraserver'. What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>> A couple of things - first, it looks like you repeated the -o
>> section. Second, you should try adding "-t nfs".



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