Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol that allows a user on a system (client) to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. In one of our earlier tutorials, [...]
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Linux NFS Mount Entry in fstab ( /etc/fstab ) with Example
NFS stands for ‘Network File System’. This mechanism allows unix machines to share files and directories over the network. Using this feature, a Linux machine can mount a remote directory (residing in a NFS server machine) just like a local [...]
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Find Detailed NFS Mount Options in Linux
Here in this tutorial, I will discuss the different NFS mount options you have to perform on nfs client. NFS is a client and server architecture based protocol, developed by Sun Microsystems. The main purpose of this protocol is sharing [...]
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How to Mount NFS using Autofs
Autofs uses the automount daemon to manage your mount points by only mounting them dynamically when they are accessed. Autofs consults the master map configuration file /etc/auto.master to determine which mount points are defined. It then starts an automount process with [...]
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Hard Mount vs Soft Mount in NFS with Example
Using NFS protocol, the NFS client can mount the filesystem existing on a NFS server, just like a local filesystem. For example, you will be able to mount “/home” directory of host.nfs_server.com to your client machine as follows: # mount [...]
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3 Ways to Force Unmount in Linux Showing “device is busy”
When you do an NFS mount, it sometimes shows "device is busy” status, in such case we need to perform force unmount in a graceful way. There are different ways and options we can try out if normal nfs unmount fails. [...]
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