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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] searching advice
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:33:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfm+UD2=FK0nTsLnu7CdMsMaM=fhV_Gwpsc4R=Su6K4D2hg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16181783940.1FDE2bc8.20411@composer.9fans.topicbox.com>

what happens if you use mntgen first?

mntgen
ext2srv
mount -c ... # etc

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 3:01 PM ibrahim.a.71 via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:
>
> Hi 9fans,
>
> I'm currently trying plan9. During my test phase I installed 9legacy on qemu.  Everythings works fine but I couldn't master to exchange files with my host system (linux). I tried a virtfs, virtual fat drives an ext image and failed mounting the filesystem in plan9
>
> I would prefer ext2 as a shared partition :
>
> I tried
>
> ext2srv
> mount -c /srv/ext2 /n/hostfs /dev/sdD0
>
> and this results in an error message :
> mount: mount /n/hostfs : no file system device specified
>
> I looked in the man pages and on internet but couldn't find an example for mounting a harddisk or a setup to share files between host and guest.
>
> Perhaps someone can point out how to exchange data using virtual harddisks or u9fs.
>
> Thanks in advance
> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-11 21:59 ibrahim.a.71 via 9fans
2021-04-12  7:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2021-04-12 14:15 ` Mack Wallace
2021-04-12 15:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2021-04-12 19:30   ` ibrahim via 9fans

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