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 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:01 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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 -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
