Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 00:53:40 +0800 From: bsd140870 <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[4]: nfs and cp problem: file system full Message-ID: <18438106924.20010409005340@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104081619490.8098-100000@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104081619490.8098-100000@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk>
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Sunday, April 08, 2001, 11:32:46 PM, you wrote:
AM> You are correct, the client shouldn't run out of space. All things being
AM> equal then /usr should have more than enough space for ports. Which
AM> confused me for a while...until I read your original post again a few
AM> times. I think I might have nailed it this time...here goes...
>> p200(as1) as an nfs server and duron650(as3) as an nfs client. nfs
>> mounts ok w/ no problems.
>>
>> mount as1:/usr/ports /portstmp
wrong. my apologies. that should've been:
mount as1:/usr/ports /usr/ports
since there is nothing in /usr/ports on the client (as3).
AM> Assuming you're executing this command on the client (as3) then that
AM> should mount the server's /usr/ports as /portstmp, correct?
>> cp -R /usr/ports/* /portstmp
AM> Also assuming you execute this on the client (as3) then that looks to me
AM> like you're trying to copy everything from the client's /usr/ports/
AM> directory into /portstmp (which is an nfs mount of the ports collection on
AM> as1). If this is the case then I suspect this isn't what you want to do
AM> and is the reason you are running out of space.
AM> First off you will probably want to kick yourself (I always find it helps
AM> to kick oneself at times like this...and trust me when I say that
AM> everybody on this list has made this kind of mistake many times before)
it is so true :) again, my mistake.
AM> Once that's done, what I would do, as this will probably have damaged the
AM> ports collection on as1, would be to rm -rf * in /usr/ports on the
AM> client (as3) cvsup the ports on the server (as1) and then execute:
AM> mount as1:/usr/ports /portstmp
AM> cp -R /portstmp/* /usr/ports
AM> on the client (as3).
AM> My apologies for not spotting this earlier. Hope this helps.
AM> Andy
AM> ***************************************
AM> Andrew McKay <birminghamweb@freeuk.com>
AM> Located near Birmingham, England
AM> Catalogue available on request
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