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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mount a usb ext2 hd?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:03:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6857772a2860215fd3fcbb8e526910e@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <212463bc3b45783438c77206142403da@quanstro.net>

>> % if(! test -e /n/usb) mkdir /n/usb
>> % mount -c /srv/ext2 /n/usb
>> mount: mount /n/usb: file does not exist
>
> i think you mean
>
> 	mount -c /srv/ext2 /n/ext2 /dev/sdXX/$partition

are you correcting the /n/usb to /n/ext2, or the lack of a
spec arg? if the later, at least as per the man page, both
work. without the spec arg, ext2srv uses the -f arg as a
default (as does dossrv, which was news to me). if the
former, i agree it's clearer but it shouldn't break things,
no?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09 18:39 Markus Sonderegger
2008-04-10 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
2008-04-09 21:48   ` Markus Sonderegger
2008-04-10 15:06     ` cinap_lenrek
2008-04-10 14:03   ` a [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-09 18:38 Markus Sonderegger
2008-04-10 12:04 ` cinap_lenrek

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