On my Kubuntu 12.04 machine anything USB gets mounted under /media/. Not /media/<username>. Does that mean anything to anyone?
On 12/23/2013 05:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:23:06 -0800 > Chris Schafer <[email protected]> dijo: > >> Also I would re-enter the configuration line in the exports file. >> Perhaps with the same entry as the one that worked. >> >> Is jjj mounted by hand? Or is it mounted by the media mount service >> that ubuntu is running? >> >> Maybe the interaction is with the service that mounts the removable >> media and the nfs export? >> >> I am not sure I have ever exported a non permeant mount. Perhaps >> moving the export up higher would fix it? Though I don't see why that >> should be a problem. > When I installed Xubuntu 13.10 on the brand new laptop (only a couple > weeks ago) I made a separate partition for ~/. I did the same thing > when I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on the desktop several months ago. When > either computer is rebooted the boot process automatically mounts ~/ > because it has to, else it wouldn't be able to find all the > configuration files. > > However, Movies is an external USB drive on the laptop that I must mount > manually after booting the laptop. I could do it from the command line, > but it's far easier to use the Xfce panel widget "Places." I just click > on Places, it displays Movies in gray, I select Movies and a popup > appears offering to just mount it or mount and open it (I.e., open a > Thunar browser window. I always select just mount, after which it goes > from gray to black in the GUI and I can browse it. I don't know what > process Xubuntu uses to mount it; ultimately I suppose there is a mount > command hidden under the GUI. And since it is a USB drive Ubuntu mounts > it in /media/<username>/ by default. > > I suppose I could add a line to fstab on the laptop so it would mount > Movies automatically, but then there would be at least an error message > if I ever boot the laptop away from home without the drive physically > connected to the laptop. > > So when I try to mount Movies on the desktop via nfs I am actually > trying to mount a mount. Could that be the source of the problem? > > As for the syntax in /etc/exports, I can't see anything wrong with > it. When just a bit ago I added ~/ to the exports file I did so by > copying the existing Movies line, then backspacing over the mount point > until it read just /home/jjj. And I failed to copy the line completely > the first time - left off a final parenthesis - and got an error > message when I went to exportfs -a. I don't know how rigorously > exportfs checks the syntax of the share lines, but it must do at least > some checking. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
