UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have two Unix machines on the network and now one of them are running out of disk but i have alot on the other so i like to mount the disk (or a folder) from the one that has disk and mount it on the other that does not.
How do i do that? Is it possible i read the "man mount" but didn't really understand how to do it.

Thank you for helping out.

Hi my friend

So this mounting method (man mount to go for help) is a part
of NFS.

Let me give an example to you:

/usr/sbin/mount -t nfs <hostname>:/tmp /tmp2

In the sbin directory there you can find the command (if the path's not set).

-t = type for a filesystem (NFS) isn't mounted yet

hostname = name of the server you wants to mount from

/tmp = name of the filesystem you wants to mount

/tmp2 = it's the new mount-point on your local machine

Try it!

Bye, Oliver

what OS are you using? just incase you are running sun solaris


To be able to share a remote filesystem you have to share the remote filesystem.

To share the remote filesystem you need to modify
the /etc/dfs/dfstab file with

share -F nfs -o rw /filesystem

also modify the /etc/dfs/sharetab with

/filesystem nfs rw

then issue
shareall

make sure nfs daemon are running of the server
you could check by isseing

ps -ef | grep nfs

if it is not running you could start nfsd by issuing /etc/init.d/nfs.server start

on the client side, that is the side with no disk space
you need to mount the remote filesystem you could do this by issuing

mount (remote server):/usr/local /mount_point

Note:
/filesystem will be the filesytem you intend to share eg / /usr/local, /var, /export/home

so if you intend to share /usr/local your /etc/dfs/dfstab will look like

share -F nfs -o rw /usr/local

and /etc/dfs/sharetab will look like

/usr/local nfs rw

Thank you!

I am running sun solaris, i tried to run "mount -F nfs hostname:/home /export/folder" then i got an problem with
RPC program not registred, i will try your way.

Got it working!!

Thanx alot!!

Sorry! Was just a suggestion for TRU64+AIX.

Regards
Oliver