how to mount NFS file system automatically ??

[Cat_4]

how to mount NFS file system automatically ??

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

It's quite an indepth subject

man automount

will give you more details

Also do a search for more links

Regards

Steve

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You can have the filesystem mounted at boot time by placing an entry into /etc/fstab:

HOSTNAME:/DIRECTORY2MOUNT /LOCALDIRECTORY2MOUNTON nfs OPTIONS 0 3

Where OPTIONS can be like rw (read/write), ro (read only). Do a man on nfs_mount.

live free or die
harry

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Do you mean at boot time?

- In which case you just add an entry to /etc/fstab e.g.

server:/mnt /mnt nfs rw,hard 0 0

Or do you mean when someone tries to access a specific directory?

- In which case you need to set up the automounter - see this link for info on setting this up:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=automount%7cnfs&queryid=20020625-040812

HTH

Duncan

[Alex Glennie]

also -> http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-toc.html&searchterms=automounter&queryid=20020625-040903

[Shahul]

Hi

U want NFS FS to be mounted while booting.. Right? This can be achieved by adding the entry in /etc/fstab. I suggest U to go for automounting. Here even if ur NFS server is down while client comes up, Exported FS will be mounted once NFS server comes up. Where as in earlier case NFS server should be alive while client comes up.. Got it??

How to setup automounting? See below

I hope U have setup the NFS server properly. Come to the client side

#cd /etc/rc.config.d

Edit nfsconf file and make sure that NFS_CLIENT and AUTOMOUNT are set to 1

Then go to SAM-networking and communication

Here U can see remotely mounted files option, Go to action, here U can setup automount option for NFS filesystem.

Or U can manually edit /etc/auto.direct file. Better U do it thru sam. After this

#cd /sbin/init.d
#./nfs.client stop
#./nfs.client start

#bdf

See whether remote file systems are mounted or not? If not, please cross check ur procedure once again.

Best of luck
Shahul

[George Abraham_1]

hai
please see this link.. will give you a good idea on how Aoutomounting works

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-toc.html&searchterms=nfs%7cautomounter&queryid=20020625-085806

keep smiling
george