Mounting identically labelled disks (OVMS73)

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Date: 01/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:30:35 +0000 (UTC)

Ran into a problem recovering files from an image-copied backup of an
NFS shared Unix container home directory...

The original disk with the Unix home directories is still online.

Mounted the image-copied backup disk. Had to use the /override:
identification qualifier since the label on the backup disk is
(obviously) identical. This prevented me from specifying /system
that makes the volume available to all processes, not just my tree...

So, as the NFS server's not in my process tree, it doesn't have
permission to access the image-copied backup that I've brought online.

Now there really is no issue about confusing identically labelled disks!
No, really. On VMS I can distinguish them easily - they're different
devices, and on Unix I can distinguish them easily - they've different
mount points.

So, how to stop VMS's nannying; letting me nfs share identically
labelled disks?

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