MAKING A MOUNT DIRECTORY IN LINUX

MAKING /MNT/SOFTWARES AS A MOUNT DIRECTORY

Open linux terminal and type the following command #vi /etc/exports

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Click enter and enter the directory path which you want to mount as shown below

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Save it and exit

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Restart the nfs service by typing the above command

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Now the directory was mounted In order to accesses this mount directory go to another linux machine and type the following command #mount t nfs o rw 172.16.12.206:/mnt/softwares /mnt/softwares

Note: 172.16.12.206 is the ip address of the linux machine which contains the mount directory

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