Now the /nfsmounts directory acts as the root for all the NFS mounts on the client
if the auto.nfs le is lled appropriately. The name auto.nfs is chosen for the
sake of convenience—you can choose any name. In auto.nfs add entries for all the
NFS mounts as follows:
localdata -fstype=nfs server1:/data
nfs4mount -fstype=nfs4 server2:/
Activate the settings with rcautofs start as root. In this example,
/nfsmounts/localdata, the /data directory of server1, is mounted with
NFS and /nfsmounts/nfs4mount from server2 is mounted with NFSv4.
If the /etc/auto.master le is edited while the service autofs is running, the au-
tomounter must be restarted for the changes to take effect with rcautofs restart.
28.3.2 Manually Editing /etc/fstab
A typical NFSv3 mount entry in /etc/fstab looks like this:
nfs.example.com:/data /local/path nfs rw,noauto 0 0
NFSv4 mounts may also be added to the /etc/fstab le. For these mounts, use
nfs4 instead of nfs in the third column and make sure that the remote le system is
given as / after the nfs.example.com: in the rst column. A sample line for an
NFSv4 mount in /etc/fstab looks like this:
nfs.example.com:/ /local/pathv4 nfs4 rw,noauto 0 0
The noauto option prevents the le system from being mounted automatically at start
up. If you want to mount the respective le system manually, it is possible to shorten
the mount command specifying the mount point only:
mount /local/path
Note, that if you do not enter the noauto option, the initialization scripts of the system
will handle the mount of those le systems at start up.
468 Reference
