Saturday, November 22, 2025

NFS : Configure NFS Client

 

NFS : Configure NFS Client


 

Configure NFS Client to mount NFS Share on NFS Client.
This example is based on the environment like follows.

+----------------------+          |          +----------------------+
| [    NFS Server    ] |10.0.0.30 | 10.0.0.51| [    NFS Client    ] |
|     dlp.srv.world    +----------+----------+    node01.srv.world  |
|                      |                     |                      |
+----------------------+                     +----------------------+

[1]Configure NFS Client.
root@node01:~# 
apt -y install nfs-common
root@node01:~# 
vi /etc/idmapd.conf
# line 5 : uncomment and change to your domain name

Domain = 
srv.world
root@node01:~# 
mount -t nfs dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare /mnt

root@node01:~# 
df -hT

Filesystem                   Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                         devtmpfs  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                        tmpfs     392M  560K  392M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/debian--vg-root  ext4       27G  934M   25G   4% /
tmpfs                        tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                        tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs                        tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /tmp
/dev/vda1                    ext4      943M   74M  804M   9% /boot
tmpfs                        tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
tmpfs                        tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/serial-getty@ttyS0.service
tmpfs                        tmpfs     392M  4.0K  392M   1% /run/user/0
dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare nfs4       27G  937M   25G   4% /mnt
# NFS share is mounted

# if mount with NFSv3, add [-o vers=3] option

root@node01:~# 
mount -t nfs -o vers=3 dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare /mnt
[2]To mount automatically when System starts, Configure setting in [/etc/fstab].
root@node01:~# 
vi /etc/fstab
# add to last line : set NFS share

dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare /mnt               nfs     defaults        0 0
[3]To mount dynamically when anyone access to NFS Share, Configure AutoFS.
root@node01:~# 
apt -y install autofs
root@node01:~# 
vi /etc/auto.master
# add to last line

/-    /etc/auto.mount

root@node01:~# 
vi /etc/auto.mount
# create new : [mount point] [option] [location]

/mnt   -fstype=nfs,rw  dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare

root@node01:~# 
systemctl restart autofs
# move to the mount point to verify mounting

root@node01:~# 
cd /mnt

root@node01:/mnt# 
df -h /mnt

Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare   27G  937M   25G   4% /mnt

root@node01:/mnt# 
grep /mnt /proc/mounts

/etc/auto.mount /mnt autofs rw,relatime,fd=7,pgrp=2584,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=11692 0 0
dlp.srv.world:/home/nfsshare /mnt nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=524288,wsize=524288,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.0.0.51,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.0.30 0 0

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