Mounting one fileserver volume on another?

colm_c

We've got a linux fileserver in the office, which is fine, but one of the partions is getting quite full with our project archive. I want to archive this off onto another machine which has more space - all very well and good.

However I don't want to have to setup and sync logins for the 2 machines, is it possible to mount one volume on another and use a symlink?

That way users wouldn't even notice the difference?

I'm not too worried about security, as it's a read-only folder and I'm the only one who archives the projects.

mr_angry

I'd imagine that the following command should work fine:

mount -t <filesystem-type> <remote-path> <local-path>

That should setup everything you need. I can't see anything that would cause any complications with that.

colm_c

Perfect!

Worked first time!

Nietzschean

the only thing there is that you need global read on a file, unless you sync the passwd/group files between the boxes(assuming using nfs exports/mounts)... though for your own user you could just manually change your uid/gid on the second box to match that on the first if its only for yourself.

colm_c

Any scripts that would sync users and groups between boxes?

Potentially run it as a cron every night (we don't get that many new users)