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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!duke!news.duke.edu!bullnext.mc.duke.edu
  2. From: low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
  4. Subject: Re: Mounting external disk
  5. Message-ID: <8241@news.duke.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Dec 92 15:10:15 GMT
  7. References: <8236@news.duke.edu>
  8. Sender: news@news.duke.edu
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  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: trex.mc.duke.edu
  11.  
  12. Thanks for all the replies.  I'll summarize the solution(s).
  13.  
  14. When adding a second external drive the NeXT documentation says to  
  15. add the following line to /etc/fstab:
  16.  
  17.     /dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
  18.  
  19. where /External is the desired mount point on your host (let's call  
  20. it <hostserver>).  The consensus is that the ,noauto option is  
  21. neither needed nor desired.  I removed it and things appear to work  
  22. well.
  23.  
  24. However, there is another piece to the puzzle in order to permit  
  25. other machines on the Netinfo network to be able to see and mount the  
  26. new External drive.  Even if the mount on the host machine  
  27. <hostserver> causes the new drive to appear off the root directory,  
  28. say as /External, that drive/directory won't show up under  
  29. /Net/hostserver/External on the other machines on the Netinfo  
  30. network.
  31.  
  32. The trick is that, since the new disk is another physical device, it  
  33. has to exported separately from <hostserver>.  I ran NFSManager and  
  34. added a separate export entry for /External on <hostserver>.  Then in  
  35. my Netinfo domain I added an entry to mount hostserver:/External as  
  36. /External on the other machines.  Bingo, it works.
  37.  
  38. Hope this helps.
  39.  
  40. Thanks again everyone for all the replies.  And Happy Holidays!  I'm  
  41. outta here.
  42.  
  43. --
  44. Richard Low
  45. Duke University Medical Center
  46. low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu
  47. NeXT Mail welcome
  48.  
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