Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like a cut/paste error occurred on me and lost a bit of what I 
had written... This part should read as follows... (easy to do, my 
touchpad seems to be super sensitivity to slight unintended touches and 
can screw things up on me!)

    Marc..

On 2/9/2011 3:33 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> > But then I am exporting the device, not the mount point.
> > When you mount the device is BELOW the mount point, and as I said and
> > you have verified, NFS won't go past the mount point.
> This I do not understand and makes NO sense to me.  I have tried to 
> export /dev/sdc1, /media/MyPassport, and /mnt/usbdrive all to no 
> avail. What am I trying to mount, in all three of these cases, is what 
> I perceive to be THE mount point for the USB drive.  To me some of 
> this is extremely confusing also! If I mount a USB drive at some 
> location, or let KDE/Hal do it for me, the locally I can do an ls on 
> that mount point and see what is on my drive. That makes sense and 
> intuitively that implies that these paths ARE the mount point. But  
> doing an ls on /dev/sdc1, or /proc/bus/usb shows nothing. Ergo I would 
> never have guess these to be mount points, but what the heck, I 
> experimented and gave them a try also.. No joy...  What do you mean by 
> "the device is BELOW the mount point"? It has become clear that I 
> cannot mount anything "ABOVE" the mount point, like / and then expect 
> to be able to access /media/MyPassport, because of an NFS restriction. 
> OK, but I am exporting what appears to me as  THE mount point and that 
> should be sufficient for NFS since I am giving my blessing to NFS to 
> export THE mount point. What do you mean by "BELOW"? That just does 
> not make any kind of sense!

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