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From: bala@synopsys.com (Bala Vasireddi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: NFS problems on Apollo
Keywords: dismounting, mounting, NFS
Message-ID: <314@synopsys.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 03:31:24 GMT
Organization: Synopsys, Inc. Mountain View, CA USA
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Hi 

I am sort of new to Apollo's. So please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

Problem description:
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We have a DN10000 running SR10.1 and a 780 MB disk. We mount filesystems from
our Sun servers onto the DN10000. 

We mount all the filesystems as 'hard' onto the DN10000. As I understand it,
by using a 'hard' mount  that filesystem is mounted forever. Which is fine
with us. 

Now somehow we managed to erase the /etc/mtab file during all this. And now
whenever we try to mount another filesystem from a Sun onto this DN10000
it comes back with:

     WARNING: MOUNT TABLE CONTAINS NULLS AFTER MODIFICATION

* Is the file /etc/mtab that important? 
   I have been administering Suns for some time now and /etc/mtab or 
   (mount table) isn't critical for the operation of NFS.
* If it is important how do I recreate it?
* If it is not important what else am I doing.

My /etc/fstab entry for that filesystem looks like this (other entries also are
similar):

  grumpy:/osi1 /osi1 nfs rw,hard 0 0 0

Any ideas? Suggestions? 

Thanks.
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Bala Vasireddi,            Phone: (415)962-5036
Synopsys, Inc.             FAX:   (415)965-8637
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