ok i know how to do this but, ah there is always a but,

my raid5 is mounted at /mnt/raid5 and i want to mount a new drive at /mnt/raid5/media/video but how will this play at bootup? of course i will be doing it through fstab. obviosly /mnt/raid5 will need to be mounted first to be able to mount /mnt/raid5/media/video.

just thought i would ask before i try.

I know i could and already have mounted the drive at /mnt/video and then create a symbolic link to it. the only problem with that is NFS doesnt follow the link, apache and samba do but obviously i use NFS with the linux workstations on my network.

thanks

berrance

you have different partitions, and mount them say
/
/boot
/home
/usr
/var
/tmp

that is no different than mounting
/mnt/raid5
/mnt/raid5/media/video

just keep the right order in fstab ;-)

thanks for confirming that. i suspected that but just wanted to be sure first.

cheers

berrance

working great but, theres that annoying but again,

NFS recognizes the video folder as empty. the NFS share is /mnt/raid5/media and the HD is mounted at /mnt/raid5/media/video. i can access the mount on the server and through samba but not through nfs

I thought I read somewhere that NFS doesn't follow mount points (in much the same way as it doesn't follow sym-links) but I can't find the reference now.

Are you going to have other folders in /mnt/raid5/media? If not just make /mnt/raid5/media/video the NFS share.

i have all media related stuff in the media folder such as graphics and images, music, video, game saved files, plus i have it all in the same folder so i can share it all to my ps3 via apache, its great for videos download, leave on server and watch on tv via ps3. any way i am about to try the sym link again but then add link_relative to the export file. let you know how it goes.

berrance

nope nfsserver wont even start with link_relative, got the option from

http://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-nfs.exports.html

is there any way to make nfs follow the sym link on the server side like samba?

NFS doesn't support crossing mount points or following symbolic links.

You can however mount two seperate NFS shares:

mount servera:/mnt/raid5/media /media
mount servera:/mnt/raid5/media/video /media/video

PS: link_relative is supposed to link to a file that has been exported as a part of the same filesystem, not across a filesystem boundary, and definatly not to a file that wasn't exported.

Consult the exports manpage for information on crossmounting. It works perfectly fine here.

As for symbolic links, those are functional only if they are relative and the target is mounted too.