Solved Error mounting nfs from /etc/fstab

[lib13]

Hi,

From a Linux box, I've exported a directory that should be mounted inside a jail subdirectory.

In the Linux (server) box:

# grep incomi /etc/exports
/partilha_casa/partilha_mldonkey/incoming 192.168.3.0/24(secure,rw,sync,no_subtree_check,root_squash)

In the FreeBSD (client) box:

192.168.1.30:/partilha_casa/partilha_mldonkey/incoming /usr/jails/mldonkey/usr/home/mldonkey/.mldonkey/incoming/  nfs rw 0 0

When trying to mount this as:

# mount /usr/jails/mldonkey/usr/home/mldonkey/.mldonkey/incoming/
mount: /usr/jails/mldonkey/usr/home/mldonkey/.mldonkey/incoming: unknown special file or file system
# echo $?
1

Oops, something is wrong.

But, when mounting from the command line:

# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.30:/partilha_casa/partilha_mldonkey/incoming  /usr/jails/mldonkey/usr/home/mldonkey/.mldonkey/incoming/

# echo $?
0

No problem to mount it.
To try to find out where the problem is, I changed the line in /etc/fstab to:

192.168.1.30:/partilha_casa/partilha_mldonkey/incoming /mnt  nfs  rw 0 0

And

# mount /mnt; echo $?
0

Mounts fine.

So, the problem doesn't seem to be in the server part and doesn't seem to be any syntax error in /etc/fstab.

My mounted filesystems are:

# mount                                                               
/dev/ada0p2 on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
/usr/jails/sharedfs on /usr/jails/mldonkey/sharedfs (nullfs, local, read-only)
devfs on /usr/jails/mldonkey/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)

What is wrong with this setup? How to correct it?

 

[SirDice]

My guess is that the system is trying to mount it before the mldonkey jail has started. So the target directory simply doesn't exist yet.

Add the mount to /etc/fstab.mldonkey and configure the jail to mount it when it starts. That way it'll be mounted/unmounted when the jail starts/stops.

 

[lib13]

Thanks SirDice.
This is working and I don't know really why. What I did was to remove the trainling slash in the fstab entry. then it mounted fine. Tried again with the trailing slash and it worked fine again.