permissions on a USB drive are not changing even after all tricks need to use it on nfs
Tapas Mishra
mightydreams at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 10:25:12 UTC 2010
Ok here is some tricky situation not too sure as to what is causing problem.
I shared a partition on a USB using NFS to some poor server which can
use this as a backup hard disk.
The problem I have with this USB hard disk is
I see it mounted in /media (which I do not have to do)
permissions I see are
drwx------ 1 tapas tapas 16384 2010-10-05 14:39 some_arbit_directory_in_media
when on the client machine I run
mount -t nfs4 -o proto=tcp,port=2049 <Ip of Tapas NFS>:/media/myshare /mnt/nfs/
I get following error
mount.nfs4: mount system call failed
to me it seems since /media/myshare on my nfs share does not have
write or read permission
so might be nfs daemon is not able to read it.
So I changed the permissions
chmod 777 -R /media/myshare (I deliberately want 777)
but then there was no change in the permissions of the mounted partition of USB
when I do an ls -l /media to see if the permissions changed I see
drwx------ 1 tapas tapas 16384 2010-10-05 14:39 /media/myshare
there is no effect of chmod here.
On the other hand the client machine which is supposed to mount it is
failing to do so.
mount -t nfs4 -o proto=tcp,port=2049 <Ip of Tapas NFS>:/media/myshare /mnt/nfs/
mount.nfs4: mount system call failed
What more should I be looking ?
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