From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <16a4c7f5c088b5c3081a141bcd6a187d@terzarima.net> To: Philo565@tuol.org, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Another new user question From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:32:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20080302113221.6D542581@resin17.mta.everyone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6caf4338-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 1) Is there a way one can write to a mounted filesystem? > > Just for example, if I wanted to put an executable in /bin...how would > that be done? /bin is an empty directory that is then populated by a sequence of binds (you can find them in /lib/namespace and your own lib/profile). so first you work out which one of those you'd like to hold the file (ie, global or just your own private bin). it will typically be one of /$objtype/bin or $home/bin/$objtype for compiled programs and /rc/bin or $home/bin/rc for rc scripts. copy the new command to one of those. in general, given a union mount, files are created in the top-most bind or mount that was bound or mounted using the -c option to allow creation. none of the files bound to /bin have that option so the resulting directory disallows creation. having typed all that in i see that pietro gagliardi has already answered but i'll send this anyway. > 2) To mount a cdrom I know I can start 9660srv... > but how would I mount another HD? I did not see any other > filesystem servers. if a program's primary purpose is to act as a file server, it can be found in section 4 of the manual, so have a browse through that. some others, including those in ndb(8) provide a service by serving some files, but that's just the interface so they are documented wherever the service would naturally belong. (section 8 is admin, which must surely include DNS.)