Mounting NFS in Ubuntu

At home we have a NAS that supports NFS!

Its quite easy to setup Ubuntu (11.04) as an NFS client - this will allow you to mount the NAS on your local filesystem and it will appear just like any other directory.

First step is to install the nfs-common package:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

You can now mount NFS volumes!
To do so temporarily, can use this command:

sudo mount.nfs <IPADDRESS>:<REMOTEPATH> <MOUNTPOINT>

The mount point needs to exist prior to mounting.
For example, my nas would be mounted as follows:

sudo mkdir /mnt/nas
sudo mount.nfs 192.168.1.10:/nfs/Public /mnt/nas

To make this permanent, you would need to add the following line to /etc/fstab:

192.168.1.10:/nfs/Public  /mnt/NAS  nfs  defaults  0  0

As a bonus, this also allows you to use the mount and umount commands by just specifying the mount point as these commands will query the /etc/fstab file.

For example, once your /etc/fstab file is up to date, these commands will work without specifying the remote host and path:

sudo umount /mnt/nas
sudo mount /mnt/nas