[OpenAFS] afs root partition creation issue

Esther Filderman mizmoose@gmail.com
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:12:27 -0400


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Sriram Subramanian <srirams@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to understand the functioning of the AFS protocol and so I'm
> trying to set up an AFS client and server machine inside our lab. One of the
> steps require us to setup the afs root partition using the "vos create"
> command.
>
> I have setup a partition at /viceaa and then issued the command
>
> $vos create <machine_name> /viceaa root.afs -cell <cellname> -noauth
> vos: could not interpret partition name '/viceaa'
>

Vice partitions must be of the name "vicep{}".  You can have vicepaa,
but not viceaa.