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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>
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Subject: Re: NFS ignores mount point.  It's happening again.
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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