I could use some help mounting a new drive under an NFS share on a server.

I've been running an NFS share on a server without issue for about 6 months. I've installed a new hard drive(formatted as ext3) in the server and mounted the drive under the NFS share. On the server, I can create, modify and delete files under the mount point for the drive.

From the clients, I cannot see any files that are stored on the drive. In other words, I can navigate through the NFS share as normal, but when I click on the mount point for the new drive, there are no files visible.

If I un-mount the drive and create a file under the mount point, the clients can see the newly created file.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to mount the drive and have the files visible through NFS?

Thanks in advance,
Shaticus

So, for example, you have server1 exporting server1:/export, and now you want to share server1:/export/newdisk too?

Have you exported both /export and /export/newdisk in /etc/exports? You have to.

Hi AlucardZero,

I have been exporting server1:/export and want to have the new disk mounted under this existing share.
My setup is this: I have a directory, /export, shared via NFS as server1:/export. Under the /export directory, I've created a sub-directory, archive, and mounted the drive as /export/archive on the server. I'd like to have /export/archive directory available through the NFS share server1:/export. When connecting to server1:/export from the clients, no files are listed in the archive directory.

As suggested, I've added server1:/export/archive to the /etc/exports file and restarted the NFS daemon. On the clients, I can mount server1:/export/archive and see all the files stored on the new drive. If I try to access the archive directory through the server1:/export share, I can see the archive directory, but no files are listed.

Is it possible to allow access to the new drive through a sub-directory of an NFS share?

Thanks for your help,
Shaticus