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Re: mount_null gone?

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Old 02-17-2008, 07:04 AM
Gijs Nijholt
 
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Default Re: mount_null gone?

What's particularly strange, it's that the command (/sbin/mount_null)
exists, but on executing the following command:
gijs@basecamp> sudo mount_null /extended/ /home/gijs/fileserver/
....I get the following error:
mount_null: /home/gijs/fileserver/: Filesystem not supported by kernel

Both filesystems are FFS, and it worked really well in 3.6.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?

On 9/4/05, Gijs Nijholt <gijs.nijholt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After some digging through mailinglist archives, it seems that
> mount_null is no longer in the GENERIC since OpenBSD 3.7 (and
> mount_union as well)
> This is not mentioned in the release notes as far as I can verify.
>
> Why is it gone and what is the alternative?
> (I need a way to mount my /extended partition into /home/users and
> /var/www/users/user, which are both chrooted in respectively ftp and
> apache)
>
> Or how can I get mount_null back without reinstalling the system?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Gijs Nijholt


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