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To: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: mountd and remount error 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:40:15 +0200."
             <199610122340.BAA00584@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> 
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 18:56:00 CDT
From: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>
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In message <199610122340.BAA00584@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, roberte@mep.ru
hr-uni-bochum.de writes:
>
>> >>   Given the following /etc/exports:
>> >> 
>> >> mountd|Wed4:44pm} cat /etc/exports
>> >> /usr/export/ -maproot=root -alldirs
>> >> 
>> >>   Why does the following error:
>> >> 
>> >> Oct  9 16:39:28 pseudo mountd[1353]: Could not remount /usr/export/:
>> >> Invalid argument
>> >> Oct  9 16:39:28 pseudo mountd[1353]: Bad exports list line /usr/export/
>> >> -maproot
>> >> 
>> >>   Show up if mountd is started like 'mountd -r'?
>> >
>> >Does /usr/export exist?
>> 
>>   Yes.
>
>Is it empty ?
>Try putting a file or dir in.
>

  No, it has a swap file and a directory containing the root partition
for the hp.

>> >Also try removing the trailing / in /etc/exports.
>> 
>>   Same problem with or without.

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Kent Vander Velden
graphix@iastate.edu