On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:46:30AM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote: > Gilles Sadowski wrote: >> Hi. >>> I've one guest server (gserver1), and the root server. >>> On the root server, there is a partition /backup (/dev/hda2) >>> of 59 Gb. I would like to mount /backup in the guest server >>> gserver1, so, I do : >>> vnamespace --enter gserver1 -- mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 >>> /etc/vservers/gserver1/vdir/backup >> That looks strange... >> If you want to access that partition within the vserver, >> you should probably add a line like this >> /dev/hda2 /backup ext3 defaults 0 0 >> to the "/etc/vserver/gserver1/fstab" config file (on the host). >> When you start the vserver, the mount will be taken care >> of automatically. >> Best, >> Gilles > This doesn't seem to be a good solution because, apprently, > I can't mount the hda2 partition, gserver1 doesn't see it. it is the correct solution, note that you add it to the guest configs fstab, not to the guests fstab so, util-vserver will do the mount on the host but in the guest namespace even better would be to use a bind mount entry in the config, because it seems to be already mounted on the host anyway > So, the best solution would be to put the line of fstab in > the root server, but, anyway, we still come back to the problem... you can do that, but you need to tell util-vserver that you do not want this path/filesystem cleaned up when creating a new namespace best, Herbert > Thanks,