NFS Client Configuration
To configure your host as an NFS client (to acquire remote files or directories), you need to ensure that you have the nfs-common
package installed, to be able to access NFS shares. After you’ve installed this, edit the /etc/fstab
file as you would to mount any local file system. However, instead of using a device name to be mounted (such as /dev/sda1
), enter the remote hostname and the desired file system to be imported. For example, one entry might look like this:
# Device Mount Point Type Options Freq Passyourhost:/home/share /export/share none nfs 0 0
Note
If you use autofs
on your system, you need to use proper autofs
entries for your remote NFS mounts. ...
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