Sorry ... I wasn't finished. see below:
On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:14, Jerry Davis wrote:
> I have an export on system A -- lets call it /data
> System B does an nfs mount of A:/data on say /mnt/A
> All is well.
>
> Now lets say that I am running out of partition space on A:/data
> So I add more disk space on another device, lets call it A:/data1
> But I want to be able to access it under A:/data as if it was underneath
> /data in the first place on both system A and System B.
>
> 1) Now I know that this won't work:
> on system A: mount /data1 on /data/mymountpoint
> system B: only shows /mnt/A/mymountpoint
>
> 2) will this work?
> on system A: do a ln -s /data1 /data/mymountpoint
> will system B: see what is on /data1 ?
3) soft links on both systems? I realized 2) won't work for system B: only for
A:
how about this?
System A:
mkdir /data/mymountpoint
ln -s /data1 /data/mymountpoint
export both /data and /data1
System B:
mount A:/data on /mnt/A
mount A:/data1 on /mnt/A1
and in rc.local do:
ln -s /mnt/A1 /mnt/A/mymountpoint
>
> Or is there a better way?
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