-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 vladimir konrad wrote: |>To answer your question... No, the fileserver cannot be configured to |>look elsewhere (unless you change some code). |>What's the problem with mounting your storage for AFS to /vicepXX?
| i have another box with 1.5TB raid array as one giant file system with about | 500GB spare (more than enough space to replace the dead afs server). | | i wanted to configure this 1.5TB machine as a fileserver until the problem with the | old one is solved. the problem is that i cannot simply create a new partition on the | 1.5TB array (there is no disk partition on it at all, i think the normal partition cannot | be that big) so i would like to have a sub-directory on the array holding the openafs volumes. | | just a crazy thought, would not symlink work (/vicepa -> /some/directory/elsewhere)? The best solution in this sort of emergency is (assuming your O/S supports them) is to create a loopback filesystem image and mount that on /vicepa. dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1 seek=500000 of=/some/directory/vice.img mkfs /some/directory/vice.img mount /some/directory/vice.img /vicepa That should get you over the hump. CLD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/pubkey.txt iD8DBQFEgV3YPU2b1GM6XVsRAhsnAJ4s8JoL4WafJ2XbuGKajOvWcy0eggCfeMiw x3puBHj4TRD8B+9owVlvFWc= =ODwg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info