From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 12:18:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA19125 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:18:21 -0700 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA19118 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:18:17 -0700 Received: from alpha.enc.edu (alpha.enc.edu [199.93.252.250]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) with SMTP id QAA06082 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:24:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:17:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: fdisk update, background NFS mounting? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------