Creating an NFS

[Andre Ford]

I'm pretty new to the Unnix world so please forgive me if this has been answered before. We are currently have a 4-bay data silo attached to our HP 9000 running 10.20. The silo has been configured and works fine under 10.20. What I need to do is format a removable drive, create an NFS and take it to an HP-UX 9.05 environemnt where it can be mounted and used. I'm not sure what switches I would need to accomplish this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Andre

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Andre,
Im not sure Ive understood what you are up to...
This is what I see :
1)You need to format (?..) a removable drive
2) create an NFS (??)
3) Take it to an HP-UX 9.05 (???)

Looks youre talking of HP series 700 workstation is is not?
1) Are you using LVM, and vxfs on youre 10.20?
2 and 3: Is it you want the disk to be seen by HP9.05 or physically plug the disk to it - in which case I dont understand the NFS bit.

I would imagine : you want to create an filesystem that is exported to your 9.05 box.

Unfortunatly I havent used a workstation for 5 years now, and HP series800 have been using LVM since HPUX 9.XX... The best for you since you are new to unix would be to use SAM (System admin-manager) sam works in text and X, now as for your task 2 choices under LVM
a) add your disk to an existing volume group
b) create a new volume group
To do so, choose your option (create or add to existing) launch sam=>disk and file systems...
Once youve done this in sam go and create a logical volume of the size of the file system you want to be exported and the mount point.
Now in sam, go to Networking and Communications/Networked file systems
click on exported file systems.
In the new window go to menu Actions/Add exported file system
Fill in the fields
I cant remember what it does after but you should see "enable NFS server" at a point...
Youve achieved now your goal
Test: On your 9.05, try to mount your file system:
(Always as root)
mount :/ /

OK?

Good luck

All the best

Victor

[Andre Ford]

Victor,

Got your response. Thanks for the info. My apologies for not being clear on what I'm trying to do. You pretty much cleared up a few things for me but here are the responses to your questions:

1. Yes, we're using LVM and vxfs on our 10.20
2 and 3. Also yes. I need to have the disk bee seen in 9.05. We have a few labs setup that run different versions of HP-UX. The customer wants the capability to come to the HP-UX 10.20 environment, do a newfs on the removable drive and take it back to his 9.05 environment for them to use.

Please bear with me as I try and get acquainted with Unix again after being in the NT world for a while.(Worked with it about seven years ago but not to this extent). Thanks for everything

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi again Andre,
Im afraid it will not work unless you find a way on your 10.20 box to create an non lvm disk with a unique HFS filesystem since to my knowledge - on HP 9000/800 servers since 10.20 I think you cannot do so (... Anyone else out there to confirm or give a hand?).
If tis to use data from the 10.20 to your workstation 9.05 then NFS will do the job.
Now if you have a 10.20 worksstation, it may be different since as mentionned before I havent dealed with one and dont know what you can do, but for sure if you have a series 700 with 10.20 and your customer want to migrate 9.05 to 10.20 you could generate a bootable tape (look if you have make_recovery utility installed - that is Ignite-Ux ...) or if the boot disks are identical replicate the disks with the dd command...

All the best

Victor