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Mounting one fileserver volume on another?

  • 22-11-2006 06:41PM
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • #2
    mr_angry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Perfect!

    Worked first time!


  • #4
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭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)


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