On Tuesday 2008 December 23 19:48:28 Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to get conditional mounting from fstab? No. > I'm trying to setup an nfs server that exports it's root as read only for > nfsroot to other systems. For that to work I mount var,tmp,home etc from > each machines local disk by mounting the local disk to /local and then > mounting them using mount --bind (using the bind fstab option). This works, > only it makes the server do some circles by mounting /dev/sda1 as root, as > /local and then again double mounting home, etc, tmp,var etc. > > Is there a simple way to avoid this on the server, and/or is there any > overhead to this (if there is no access overhead then I guess that there is > also no damage) Try like this in fstab: /dev/sda1 /.local-storage /.local-storage/var /var (w/ bind option, later pass) /.local-storage/tmp /tmp (w/ bind option, later pass) /.local-storage/home /home (w/ bind option, later pass) /.local-storage/etc /etc (w/ bind option, later pass) I think that should do what you want. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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