Mounting nfs share on boot
Have you encountered that your mounted nfs folder disappeared after the server reboot (for whatever reason)?
Very frustrating huh?!
I will show you how to mount and will not lose the connection.
Let’s check what are the shared folder exported from our NFS server.
# showmount -e <nfs.server.ip.address>
The program ‘showmount’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt-get install nfs-common
showmount: command not found
Arg!!! showmount is not installed. Have to install it first using apt-get.
# apt-get install nfs-common
Now we can view the shared folder from our NFS server.
# showmount -e <nfs.server.ip.address>
Export list for <nfs.server.ip.address>:
/mnt/<shared_folder> <nfs.server.ip.address>/255.255.255.0
Let’s try to mount it to test if we will not encounter any problem in mounting the shared folder.
# mount <nfs.server.ip.address>:/mnt/<shared_folder> /home/<user>/<new_folder>
We can check the newly mounted share using df.
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 48425796 3339580 42626264 8% /
udev 509032 248 508784 1% /dev
none 509032 0 509032 0% /dev/shm
none 509032 112 508920 1% /var/run
none 509032 0 509032 0% /var/lock
none 509032 0 509032 0% /lib/init/rw
<raid.server.ip.address>:/mnt/<shared.folder> 511900416 139367936 346531840 29% /home/<user>/<new_folder>
Neat! It was mounted without any problem.
Mounting it without losing it on boot is not that hard. We have to edit the /etc/fstab
# vi /etc/fstab
Add this line at the bottom the details that you saw when you viewed the shared folder from our NFS server (see above).
<raid.server.ip.address>:/mnt/<shared.folder> /home/<user>/<new_folder> nfs rw 0 0
Reboot the server and watch the magic as it happens.
Check the mounted shared folder using df.
Neat!
