Mount Point

[Tony Curtis]

>> On 25 Jul 2003 20:26:08 -0700,

>> Tester <Tester_member@newsguy.com> said:

> Hi, I have several sun ultra sparc 10's running
> solaris8. My problem is I have several hd's on these
> computers, I want to make dir's like usr3, usr4 , and
> usr5 to user for backup files.

# mkdir /usr{3,4,5}

> When I mkdir these directories, I get several items in
> them.

Show an example of this, please, with error messages. The
result you describe doesn't make any sense (a new
directory is empty). What are these "items"?

> I am trying to make a mount point, but with no luck.

mkdir :-)

> I have edited the vfstab and also looked at the mnttab
> files.

(Don't try to change mnttab! This is managed by the
system, it's not a "normal" file.)

Show us an entry you tried to add to vfstab, the command
you subsequently used to attempt the mount and any and all
error messages.

Elaborating on the backup process you're trying to
implement may also turn out to be useful; someone might be
able to suggest an improved approach.

hth
t

[sharona]

Tester <Tester_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<bfsscg01vbe@drn.newsguy.com>...

> Hi,
>
> I have several sun ultra sparc 10's running solaris8. My problem is I have
> several hd's on these computers, I want to make dir's like usr3, usr4 , and usr5
> to user for backup files. When I mkdir these directories, I get several items
> in them. I am trying to make a mount point, but with no luck. I have edited the
> vfstab and also looked at the mnttab files. Am I missing something here or
> what?
> Any help would be greatful.
>
> ralph

Hi Ralph,

you mentioned that you have several hard drives on this system. Are
they new or do they already have data on them? Also, where are you
running the mkdir command? If these hd's are already mounted are you
cd'ing into them and running the mkdir command? because mkdir /dir
will try to create the directory in the top level or root directory as
appose to the other hd's. I would cd to the directory I wanted to
create a new directory in and run mkdir dirname (no slash)...

just my thoughts...

Sharona

[sharona]

Tester <Tester_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<bfsscg01vbe@drn.newsguy.com>...

> Hi,
>
> I have several sun ultra sparc 10's running solaris8. My problem is I have
> several hd's on these computers, I want to make dir's like usr3, usr4 , and usr5
> to user for backup files. When I mkdir these directories, I get several items
> in them. I am trying to make a mount point, but with no luck. I have edited the
> vfstab and also looked at the mnttab files. Am I missing something here or
> what?
> Any help would be greatful.
>
> ralph

After rereading your post, you want to add these new directorys under
the /usr directory, correct? if so, cd /usr, mkdir usr3 usr4 usr5 or
if you don't want to cd into /usr you can do it from the top level
directory like mkdir /usr/usr3
and so on. then you will need to add it to /etc/vfstab as well as
/etc/dfs/dfstab if you want it to be exportable.

Sharona