From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 08:16:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E2216A400 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from web25004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.10.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24DBB13C471 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 60653 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Feb 2007 08:16:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=F87UeVrbg/KRelp5mkL+e8HBY+DAF4BO5yEubkVuvAZ+v8YlYXRW+/5wEBSC9/+XzK2gQKsbVLKB7xCPmpClHHEh6zonX4Pd0iaYb4i0ZRk+FL1gNYdTJu2YMhdr0Y5pFx79n/2vvD+rljy9xKeK7Qq3ni+5wQW+M/7ExjyxM/A=; X-YMail-OSG: lw2b6SMVM1m9LdnSloSWei4V6UclCB6Nx5xJQp3.LPRSs4YWg4312tL8OulW4blgRf99DqdoJiPCqhP_Drt8cHUER50XvwpPQi4gP51PTL0RWlOhzD4zlnQGWhkvDss_JYX1lUx_cHZK Received: from [83.67.67.49] by web25004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:16:27 GMT Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:16:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Davison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <931652.59682.qm@web25004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Automount : operation not permitted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:16:29 -0000 I'm unsing automount (amd) to mount to external drives. I'm getting the following error when trying to access the drives. /sun1: Operation not permitted. I've followed the example here: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html which gives the following section on errors....... A. ERRORS Operation not permitted when mounting: one cannot mount a regular partition on top of another. Unmount the first partition before attempting to mount. Can anoyone please explain what this means in english ??? What is the first partition ? Its a sun storedge with two drives in it. One called /sun1, the other /sun2 --------------------------------- Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail.