Mounting NFS on a Mac Client
Describes how to mount a NFS server on a Mac client.
About this task
Procedure
- Open a terminal. For example, you can click on Launchpad > Open terminal.
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At the command line, enter the following command to become the root user:
sudo bash
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List the NFS shares exported on the server. For example:
showmount -e usa-node01
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Set up a mount point for an NFS share. For example:
sudo mkdir /mapr_nfs/
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Mount the cluster using NFS. Use the command as in the following example:
sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3 usa-node01:/mapr /mapr_nfs/
NOTEThe mount point does not persist after reboot when you mount manually from the command line. -
List all mounted file systems to verify that the cluster is mounted. For
example:
$ mount | grep nfs usa-node01:/mapr on /mapr_nfs (nfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by testUser)