From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 11:29:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23929 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:29:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23924 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA01528; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:27:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:27:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Andre Albsmeier cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to export directory with subdirs In-Reply-To: <199702050654.HAA01747@server.us.tld> 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, 5 Feb 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > What I want to do is > > > > > > mount server:/var/spool/pcnfs/hostx /anywhere > > > > > > without changing /etc/exports. > > > And when reading the manual page: > > pace. The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the filesys- > tem followed by the -alldirs flag; this form allows the host(s) to mount > > I have to specify the root of the filesystem. > So I would have to use > > /var -alldirs > > which is NOT what I want. The PCs should not be able to mount > the whole /var FS. Well, you could make /var/spool/pcnfs it's own filesystem. that would work, but may not be practical depending on your disks. Hm... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major