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Mount the NFS share by running the following command as root or user with sudo privileges: sudo mount -t nfs 10.10.0.10:/backups /var/backups. Where 10.10.0.10 is the IP address of the NFS server, /backup is the directory that the server is exporting and /var/backups is the local mount point.
How do I mount a remote NFS volume?
To verify that the remote NFS volume is successfully mounted use either the mount or df -h command. Once the share is mounted, the mount point becomes the root directory of the mounted file system. When you are manually mounting the share, the NFS share mount does not persist after a reboot.
How can I remove a mounted NFS file?
To detach a mounted NFS share, use the umount command followed by either the directory where it has been mounted or remote share: If the NFS mount have an entry in the fstab file, remove it. The umount command will fail to detach the share when the mounted volume is in use.
How does a Network File System ( NFS ) work?
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol that allows you to share remote directories over a network. With NFS, you can mount remote directories on your system and work with the remote files as if they were local files.
What to do if NFS FS is not mounted?
If no rsize and wsize options are specified, the default varies by which version of NFS we are using. Next use df or mount command to make sure the NFS FS is not mounted any more. This is most likely because the mount_point on which your NFS file system is mounted is in use by some process.
How to use NFS for the root filesystem?
The following text describes on how to use NFS for the root filesystem. For the rest of this text ‘client’ means the diskless system, and ‘server’ means the NFS server. In order to use nfsroot, NFS client support needs to be selected as built-in during configuration.
Is there a Fedora 14 NFS Administration Guide?
There is a good guide to NFS, valid both for Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 in the official documentation, but it’s not for total newbies. The Network File System, or NFS, is a daemon that allows other computers to ‘mount’ a disk partition on another remote computer, and access the files the same as local files and folders.
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