Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:17:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> To: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: fdisk update, background NFS mounting? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950823150751.26560V-100000@alpha.enc.edu>
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Hi all,
For anyone interested, I was able to get my 4 gig scsi drive going. I
couldn't get fdisk to do it's thing (at least as far as I could tell), so
instead I simply booted from the install floppy and did a minimal install
on the the new drive. Worked like a charm. It is a bit of a kludgy way
to go, though. Why can't we have a utility that has the brains of sysinstall
that shields us from the fdisk and disklabel yuckiness?
Anyway, my real question is regarding background NFS mounts. Do they work?
I tried both of the following:
mount -o bg -t nfs -a (had to dig through the source to
figure out the 'bg' option :)
and
mount_nfs -b server:resource mountpoint
and nothing got mounted! If, however, I do a mount -t nfs -a
everthing appears fine (as it should).
I'd really like to have background mounts so stuff gets remounted properly
in the case of a big power loss. Is this currently broken?
BTW, I'm using 2.0.5-RELEASE.
Thanks,
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