Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:55:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mounting symlinked directory Message-ID: <200308031855.h73ItKhw008183@oak.pohoyda.family>
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Hi all,
Running on the FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 with a following setup:
apog@oak:~$ ls -la /workspace/mus/ | grep big
drwxr-xr-x 2 apog wheel 512 Jun 6 15:00 big
apog@oak:~$ grep big /etc/fstab
ls3610:/home/d038533/mus /workspace/mus/big nfs ro,noauto 0 0
apog@oak:~$ mount /workspace/mus/big
apog@oak:~$
works as expected.
Now, ~/mus is symlinked to /workspace/mus/ :
apog@oak:~$ ls -la | grep mus
lrwxr-xr-x 1 apog users 15 Mar 1 21:37 mus -> /workspace/mus/
apog@oak:~$ mount mus/big
mount: mus/big: unknown special file or file system
apog@oak:~$
I patched the mount utility, and it works for me.
Patch is here:
http://www.alexander-pohoyda.privat.t-online.de/patches/usr.src.sbin.mount.c.diff
Why isn't it done this way by default? Am I doing it wrong?
Thanks for any advice!
--
Alexander Pohoyda
<alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
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