Subject: Re: [vserver] mounting a partition in a running guest
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:21:14 +0200 (CEST)

James Miller wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to query the list before attempting this to make sure I'm on
> the right track.  I have a vserver mother host and 2 running guest.  The
> mother host has a ~100Gig free logical volume.  I want to mount that
> partition on one of the running guests.
>
> Would this be the correct command to run?:

With recent utils, you can do:
vmount <guest> -- -t ext3 /dev/vg01/space /space

> vnamespace -e <running_guest1> mount -t ext3 --rbind /dev/vg01/space
> /vservers/<running_guest1>/space

No, that'd be:
vnamespace -e <running_guest1> mount -n -t ext3 /dev/vg01/space
/vservers/<running_guest1>/space

--rbind is for mounting a tree elsewhere.

> What would the /etc/vserver/<running_guest1>/fstab line look like?
> /dev/vg01/space   /space   ext3   defaults   0 0

For instance, yes.

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson