Posts Tagged “mount”

06 04 2010

Mounting NFS shares on OSX

Posted by Buzz in Mac

Having little time to update my blog, I’ve been updating a wiki I keep with various tidbits, so I thought I might as well share a few, they will be appearing on here over the next few days.

First off you will want to open the “Terminal” application, not so much a play on words it is really called Terminal.

Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

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showmount -e aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

Where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP or FQDN of your NFS server, this command will show a list of mountable exports on the device.

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sudo mount -t ntfs aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:/exported/path ~/Desktop/nfs_folder

If you look on your desktop you will now see that the folder icon has changed to an aliased drive icon alias drive icon


NOTE: These changes will not persist through a reboot, I have not yet found a way of doing this short of some apple / automator script to remount the drives on startup.

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28 07 2008

mysql moving /var/lib/mysql and error: 121

Posted by Buzz in hacking, mySQL

The downside of a development server is … it’s for development.

It is  not always cost effective to have the exact same setup as you you have in your production environment …

Especially if you have a multi server setup.

So I find myself today moving /var/lib/mysql … being as the OS drive is very small, and pulling down a near 20GB database backup and then trying to rebuild the database on the same drive … well as you can imagine caused a few problems *doh*

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/etc/init.d/mysql stop
mv /var/lib/mysql /raid_5/

So surely you just symlink … right?

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ln -s /raid_5/mysql /var/lib/mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start

Well then answer would be no … upon importing the backup

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mysql < backup.sql
Can't create table './database/table.frm' (errno: 121)

A nice errorno: 121

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/etc/init.d/mysql stop
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
mkdir /var/lib/mysql
chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql
mount --bind /raid_5/mysql /var/lib/mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start

et voila …

Data directory is relocated and the import working smoothly. Feel free to suggest any “cleaner” methods.

UPDATE: Please rememeber to add the ‘mount’ line into your rc.local otherwise when you reboot this mount will be gone!

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