deutsch@jplcwp.UUCP (Michael Deutsch) (04/24/87)
I've just added a second disc drive to my XENIX system. The new drive has been partitioned into 3 file systems, similar to the main drive, therefore I have 6 file systems. The problem is that I can mount only 1 of the new file systems. When I try to mount the 5th and the 6th partition I get the message: Mount Failed Device Busy Is this related to the number of mount points in the: /usr/sys/conf/XENIX.conf file???? Please let me know if you have experience with the same. Thanks in advance. Michael Deutsch
ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder) (04/28/87)
In article <213@jplcwp.UUCP> deutsch@jplcwp.UUCP (Michael Deutsch) writes: >I've just added a second disc drive to my XENIX >system. The new drive has been partitioned into >3 file systems, similar to the main drive, therefore >I have 6 file systems. > >The problem is that I can mount only 1 of the new file >systems. When I try to mount the 5th and the 6th >partition I get the message: > > Mount Failed > Device Busy > >Is this related to the number of mount points in >the: > /usr/sys/conf/XENIX.conf >file???? Yes, Xenix is distributed with NMOUNT set to 4. You can easily change this and make a new kernel. If you are running Xenix on an 80286 and have a version older than SCO 2.2, be careful. Data space in the kernel is limited to 64k, and if you start increasing limits willy-nilly you will quickly blow the limit. If you haven't increased any of the other tunable parameters, you can increase this to 7 or 8 mounts with room to spare. -- Ben Broder {ihnp4,decvax} !hjuxa!catnip!ben {houxm,clyde}/