From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 22:52:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15262 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15253 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01952; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting locally In-Reply-To: <199611201119.MAA00517@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Is it possible to mount a local filesystem via nfs into another > mountpoint in the local fs? Assumed you have mymachine:/a/XFree86 > and want to mount it into mymachine:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 - > is that possible? I'm getting > > gil# mount gil:/a/XFree86 ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 > nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > here. > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de Why would you punish yourself that way? I see you're trying to bypass the chroot limitation with it, but man the throughput will not be pleasant. If anything, put /a/XFree86 in ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 and symlink /a/XFree86 to it. (This is how a friend of mine does FTPable CDROMs) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major