[OpenAFS] setup

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:47:12 -0500 Jeremy S Barton 
<bartonjs@cs.rose-hulman.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Mark Neal wrote:
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>> i'm trying to set up my initial afs server. when i get to the "vos
>> create", i get a message that the partition doesn't exist on my server
>> (but it does).
>
>> command==> ./vos create aaa.bbb /vicepmn root.afs -cell ccc -noauth
>> what am i missing?
>
> It's not what you're missing, it's what you added, actually.  remove the /
> from /vicepmn and it should work:
> vos create aaa.bbb vicepmn root.afs


No, folks; the argument parsing in vos is more robust than that.
'/vicepmn', 'vicepmn', 'mn', and '351' all mean the same thing.

Unfortunately, you can only have partitions 0-255 (/vicepa through 
/vicepiv).  /vicepmn is not a valid partition, and will not be recognized 
by the fileserver at all.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA