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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:07:54 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS ignores mount point.  It's happening again.
Message-ID:  <19970810200754.38663@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708102015.PAA08219@barnes1.wustl.edu>; from "Wayne M. Barnes" on Sun Aug 10 15:15:03 GMT 1997
References:  <199708102015.PAA08219@barnes1.wustl.edu>

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In the last episode (Aug 10), Wayne M. Barnes said:
> Dear FreeBSDers,
> 
>       mount newcomputer:/ /newcomputer
>       (cd /usr; tar cf - .)|(cd /newcomputer/usr; tar xvf -)
> 
>       df on new computer shows / filling up, and /usr not changing
> at all.  The NFS mount is ignoring and disrespecting the mount points
> on newcomputer.  The tar copy is filling up /, ***under the /usr mount point***
> 
>       Is this misbehaviour, or what?  Is this a bug in mount, NFS,
>       tar, or me?

Is /usr on newcomputer a separate partition?
Did you "mount newcomputer:/usr /newcomputer/usr" ?  You have to NFS
mount each filesystem you want to access.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com



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