[plug] Setting up NFS for backups.

[Richard Mortimer]

Many thanks for the response,

the nohide option did the trick, but for future reference, how can I
determine whether the /var directory is on the same filesystem?

/etc/fstab reads:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda7               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

I thought this may be something to do with the 5th and 6th field, but
looking at the fstab man page they appear to be to do with organizing the
dump and fsck commands respectively.

Thanks

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Steicke" <r.steicke at bom.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Setting up NFS for backups.


> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:50:07PM +0800, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> ...
> > Whilst I can see the majority of the filesystem on mail, it seems to be
> > blocking the mail /var directory, which contains the
> > /var/spool/mail/USERNAME - one of the directories I wish to be backed
up.
>
> Is /var a separate filesystem?  NFS exports don't normally cross mount
> points, since the file handles are inode based.  But you might want to
> try the nohide option, or export /var separately.
>
>
>
> --
> Russell Steicke
>
> -- Fortune says:
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