Friday, November 22, 2013

mount NFS using /etc/fstab

First, you may need to authenticate the local machine to the NFS server.

Then,

Please add the following line to the end of your /etc/fstab:

NFS_SERVER:/vol/vol1_home    /home           nfs4    defaults        1 1

This is the format:
SERVERIP:REMOTE_FILE      LOCAL_FILE    FILE_FORMAT 


After this, do "mount -a" should get your home directory mounted.

Other commands about mount:
mount -a: mount all of the files in /etc/fstab
umount /home: unmount the local home direcotry from NFS server


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