Samba: Value too large for defined data type
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:06 pm
[PROBLEM]
In a bash script, I was using "mountpoint" to check if target directories were properly mounted or not.
After an upgrade from kernel 2.6.26=>2.6.32, and upgrading Samba to 3.2.5-4lenny11, it didn't work anymore, and I got the following errormessage when using "mountpoint":
Thanks to an article about Samba Troubleshooting in ArchWiki, I've added the options "nounix" and "noserverino" to the entry in fstab, like this:
In a bash script, I was using "mountpoint" to check if target directories were properly mounted or not.
After an upgrade from kernel 2.6.26=>2.6.32, and upgrading Samba to 3.2.5-4lenny11, it didn't work anymore, and I got the following errormessage when using "mountpoint":
[SOLUTION]mountpoint: /mnt/xxx: Value too large for defined data type
Thanks to an article about Samba Troubleshooting in ArchWiki, I've added the options "nounix" and "noserverino" to the entry in fstab, like this:
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//hostname/share /mnt/xxx smbfs noauto,user,nounix,noserverino 0 0