Standard mount

Mount point (directory) needs to be created before mounting

an NFS file system. For example,

mkdir /mnt/nfs

The NFS directory can be mounted manually:

mount -t nfs server_name:/exported_dir  /mnt/nfs

then run df -h to see if it has been succesfully mounted.

Manual mounting with options other than defaults:

mount -t nfs -o rw, hard, rsize=2048, wsize=2048 server_name:/exported_dir  /mnt/nfs

Most Common Options (described in NFS-HOWTO)

rw
ro
hard
soft
intr
rsize
wsize

To unmount a directory, you can run command

umount /mnt/nfs

The NFS directories can be mounted at bootup time if they are

included in /etc/fstab file:

# file system     mount point  fstype   flags           dump  fsck       
server1:/home     /mnt/home     nfs    rw,intr,hard     0     0
server2:/users    /mnt/users    nfs     defaults        0     0

When /etc/fstab has been modified, you can run

mount -a

or reboot the machine

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