Comments on: Configuring the Icybox NAS 4220 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/ My thoughts about the world and the web Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Holger http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Holger Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:18:39 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-82 <blockquote>P.S. If you get a sec, what does the rsize and wsize do?</blockquote> To be honest: I have no clue! I picked that up from a tutorial or forum where I asked and it seems to be necessary, somehow. I would have to look that up, too. While I use Ubuntu for quite a while now, I am not that "console savy" yet. ;-) Just did a quick googling (because now I wanted to know what it does too). Maybe this helps: <a href="http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/nfs-client-rsize-wsize.html" rel="nofollow">http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/nfs-client-rsize-wsize.html</a>

P.S. If you get a sec, what does the rsize and wsize do?

To be honest: I have no clue! I picked that up from a tutorial or forum where I asked and it seems to be necessary, somehow.
I would have to look that up, too. While I use Ubuntu for quite a while now, I am not that “console savy” yet. ;-)

Just did a quick googling (because now I wanted to know what it does too). Maybe this helps:
http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/nfs-client-rsize-wsize.html

]]> By: Alex D http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Alex D Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:04:50 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-81 Hi Holger, Thanks for replying. I did a little digging and found that as you say, it basicaly executes the fstab to save rebooting, which I had already done. Running in a VM for now so no big deal. I'm new to Linux having flirted with it in the past, and must say it's a breath of fresh mainly due to how enthusiastic the community are, and how willing people like you are to help. I'd have given up already otherwise. All I need to do now is get Myth TV working and I can consider dropping Windows. Many thanks again. :-) P.S. If you get a sec, what does the rsize and wsize do? Hi Holger,

Thanks for replying. I did a little digging and found that as you say, it basicaly executes the fstab to save rebooting, which I had already done. Running in a VM for now so no big deal.
I’m new to Linux having flirted with it in the past, and must say it’s a breath of fresh mainly due to how enthusiastic the community are, and how willing people like you are to help. I’d have given up already otherwise. All I need to do now is get Myth TV working and I can consider dropping Windows.
Many thanks again. :-)
P.S. If you get a sec, what does the rsize and wsize do?

]]> By: Holger http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Holger Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:33:12 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-80 Hi Alex! The "mount" part is not really necessary. Once you've included the share correctly in the fstab, it will be mounted automatically, whenever you start your computer. However, when you do the whole process and include the share in the fstab, but not restart, the share will not be mounted during this session. That's what the mounting at this point was for. Not really necessary. You could just restart your computer or maybe there is the possibility to "reload" the fstab. Who knows? ;-) If it works well for you: congratulations! Hi Alex!
The “mount” part is not really necessary. Once you’ve included the share correctly in the fstab, it will be mounted automatically, whenever you start your computer. However, when you do the whole process and include the share in the fstab, but not restart, the share will not be mounted during this session. That’s what the mounting at this point was for. Not really necessary. You could just restart your computer or maybe there is the possibility to “reload” the fstab. Who knows? ;-)

If it works well for you: congratulations!

]]> By: Alex D http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Alex D Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:03:12 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-79 Hi, I realise I'm very late to this party, and I am pretty new with Linux generally. I followed your guide and it workes perfectly after 2 days strugling with the apparently incorrect method int he manual. One question, the "That’s it. You will now have to mount your share: * sudo mount -a" Bit, what is that bit for? It mounts on restart as expected, with me never entering that command. I appreciate it's irrelevant really, but I can't help but wonder. Thanks again. Hi, I realise I’m very late to this party, and I am pretty new with Linux generally. I followed your guide and it workes perfectly after 2 days strugling with the apparently incorrect method int he manual.
One question, the
“That’s it. You will now have to mount your share:

* sudo mount -a”

Bit, what is that bit for? It mounts on restart as expected, with me never entering that command. I appreciate it’s irrelevant really, but I can’t help but wonder. Thanks again.

]]> By: Holger http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Holger Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:48 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-64 Thank you for your comment, Simon. You are totally right, NFS support must be installed and I should have mentioned that in this post. I will update it as soon as possible. I even had the same problem as you, when I followed my own post (!) to set up my new Ubuntu 8.04 a few weeks ago. Thank you for your comment, Simon. You are totally right, NFS support must be installed and I should have mentioned that in this post.
I will update it as soon as possible. I even had the same problem as you, when I followed my own post (!) to set up my new Ubuntu 8.04 a few weeks ago.

]]> By: Simon Cowen http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Simon Cowen Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:02:44 +0000 http://www.rothemund.org/2008/01/13/configuring-the-icybox-nas-4220/#comment-63 Thanks for the article it was excellent. I have just purchased a IB-NAS4220-B and I was trying to mount shares with Ubuntu 8.04. However I followed your guide and had the following problems. I manually tried to mount the shares on my icybox and received the following error message. "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.X.X:/mnt/md1/icybox, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so" After a little googling I realised I had to add "nfs-common" (which is the NFS client) from the snaptics package manager. This fixed the problem and allowed the shares to mount error free. I thought you might want to update your blog and explain how to correct the error. Thanks again Simon Thanks for the article it was excellent. I have just purchased a IB-NAS4220-B and I was trying to mount shares with Ubuntu 8.04. However I followed your guide and had the following problems.
I manually tried to mount the shares on my icybox and received the following error message.

“mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.X.X:/mnt/md1/icybox, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or so”

After a little googling I realised I had to add “nfs-common” (which is the NFS client) from the snaptics package manager. This fixed the problem and allowed the shares to mount error free. I thought you might want to update your blog and explain how to correct the error.

Thanks again Simon

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