[plug] Setting up NFS for backups.

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:59:35PM +0800, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> 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?

If /var appears in /etc/fstab and it got mounted successfully at boot
time, then it's a separate filesystem.  If not, then it will be a
directory on /, and exist on the root filesystem.

> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
                          ^^^^
                     This is the  field
                     you need to look for.

Or you could look at the output from mount:

/dev/sda7 on /var type ext3 (rw)


BTW, I hope you read the warnings about nohide in the exports man page.



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Russell Steicke

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