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- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:20:20 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- I'm running SunOS 4.1.3 on a SPARCstation 2. I've got a BoxHill
- 2.35GB disk divided into two partitions, mounted on /ua and /ub.
-
- I want to loopback mount the directory /ub/local-sun4 on the directory
- /mnt.
-
- # ls -ld /ub/local-sun4
- drwxr-xr-x 15 root 512 Nov 6 10:12 /ub/local-sun4
- # ls -ld /mnt
- drwxr-sr-x 2 bin 512 Jul 23 16:26 /mnt
- # mount -t lo /ub/local-sun4 /mnt
- mount_lo: mount /ub/local-sun4 on /mnt: No such device
- mount: giving up on:
- /mnt
- #
-
- Why doesn't this work? I can't find anything in any of the manuals
- (we've go the AnswerBook, and I've spent quite a while delving in it
- trying to find something) that explains in detail how to troubleshoot
- this particular problem. As far as I can tell, what I'm trying to do
- is no different from the example given in the mount(8) man page.
-
- Any help would be appreciated.
-
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- Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu
- MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator, news.answers
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