Hi all,
Has anyone much experience with FreeNAS?
I've set up a trial box here at home.
All seems fine.
I've followed the destructions in the manual,
according to which I needed to format the drives
(there are two 320G HDD in the machine) in UFS as
I've only 2G of RAM in the machine.
The following is a summary:
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Anyway. I've followed the destructions. I can
connect and transfer files to the thing IF I use
FTP. Which I don't want to.
I want to use it so that I can automate backups
from the machines at home. Eventually I want to
put in either one or two 2Tb disk. At present I
have two 320G left overs.
So, I've followed through stuff here:
http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Unix_(NFS)_Shares
If you check from *Sample NFS Share Configuration*
down, on the page I've listed, then
I've got 'patrick' as user and 'home' as group
The volume data set is
/mnt/FreeNAS1
which is the first disk.
I had to use USF as the file system as the manual
says that ZFS can'/t be used as I'm using only 2G
of RAM.
If I try:
# mount -t nfs 192.168.2.2:/mnt/data /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on 192.168.2.2:/mnt/data,
missing codepage or helper program, or
other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs)
you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in
syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
If I try using 'ufs' as the file type I get:
mount -t ufs nfs 192.168.0.12/mnt/FreeNAS1
/home/patrick/FreeNAS1/
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted
filesystems
mount -l : idem, including
volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something
somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff
from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at
the known place
mount directory : mount known
device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount
command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one
mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory
tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the
directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a
mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or
/dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U
uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount
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Any help would be most appreciated as it's driving
me nuts. I've had a look on the FreeNAS site but
wasn't able to find anything more useful (to me,
that is) :(
Regards,
Patrick
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