[OpenAFS] Re: [Slightly OT] changing UID of a user to 1

[Matthew Andrews]

touch /vicep?/AlwaysAttach will cause /vicep? to be considered a valid 
container for volumes even if /vicep? is not a mount point.

-Matt Andrews


Russ Allbery wrote:

>Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan@gmail.com> writes:
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>>Ok. What if I add additional mass storage (say a bunch of USB hard
>>disks) which do not have any such partitions (mounted instead at say
>>/mnt/usbhdXX) ?
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>Mount them as /vicep? instead.  It will be much easier.
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>That being said, there's some trick that lets you use a symlink from
>/vicep? to the actual mount point.  You have to create a file that forces
>the file server to still treat the partition as eligible for AFS volumes.
>I don't remember the magic, but someone else here should know.
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