Questions tagged [nfs]
nfs (Network File System) created by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a client system to access network files as if local.
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NFS-Ganesha High Availability
so I have a glusterfs cluster on 3 different servers. On a client machine I can mount it normally with their client like this. Notice how I can specify 3 servers...
/etc/fstab
node1,node2,node3:/...
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unable to mount network share from fstab or in terminal
My laptop boots normally. But earlier this week, after some updates, it is unable to mount (fstab) network shares from my QNAP.
Other computers with the same fstab connect successfully. I checked the ...
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Cannot mount NFS volume with Docker, can mount it otherwise
I'm trying to set up an NFS volume shared by a TrueNAS server to use with my Docker container using Docker compose:
volumes:
data:
name: data
driver: local
driver_opts:
type: nfs
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Mounting NFSv4 NAS folders hangs
I have a QNAP NAS sharing folders using NFSv4. Until now I used to mount my folders as follows:
$sudo mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=4 192.168.1.50:/Music ~/Music/
192.168.1.50 is the IP of my NAS and 192....
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NFS: Access denied by server while mounting
I have a computer and a VirtualBox guest, where I am Trying to share a folder in the host with help of NFS.
The guest is a Manjaro Xfce with default NFS, and have setup the VirtualBox with port ...
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PI-OS 11 (Debian Bulleye ) NFS hangup during mount
I have a (for me very surprising problem ) with NFS on a Raspi 4 running Debian 11:
sudo mount -t nfs server:/Public /home/user/Public
If I execute the command, it's simply stuck and never comes back....
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Trouble Mounting NFS on Alpine Container (Proxmox)
Trying to mount an NFS share on an Alpine (3.15.3) lxc on Proxmox (7.1-10).
Following the Alpine docs for NFS, I have added nfs-utils, and rc-start nfsmount.
The entry in fstab is
192.168.11.192:/...
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tomount nfs shares
HiI want to mount a nfs share in my raspberry pi. I have setup the nfs-client and it works when I mount the share manually. I tried to use autofs since I read that it is supposed to be better than ...
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I am having trouble performing an NFS mount of a Solaris filesystem on a Ubuntu machine
I am trying to do an NFS mount of a Solaris (version 5.10) file system
(on a Sun Blade 2500) on a Ubuntu (release 20.04) system (on a Dell
Precision Tower 3620). My (possibly incorrect) understanding ...
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How to process a file on nfsv3 only after it is complete?
I have a NFS mount that files (sometimes of some size) are being written to by a different system, and right now I'm polling for new files. I need to wait until the file is fully complete before ...
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Kerberos NFS encryption stops working after clock moved backwards
I have a system that uses krb5p security for its NFS mounts. It seems to all work well except when the time is moved backwards (a few hours or so, not sure the exact threshold). When the clock is ...
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How to update computing nodes in a cluster?
I am in the process of small computing cluster assembly. It will run Ubuntu/Slurm for job scheduling. Only the head node will be connected to the Internet, all others will be accessible from the local ...
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Will execution of many parallel instances of an application from NFS drive affect performance?
I am assembling a simple computing cluster under Ubuntu 20.04 and Slurm as a job scheduler.
The cluster will be primarily used for quantum-chemical calculations, so, as a rule, each job will run its ...
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Rsyslog losing log message when file does not exist
I'm encountering case when rsyslog message is lost when the file its supposed to write to does not exist.
Here is my setup:
log server 192.168.1.2 have such config:
module(load="imtcp")
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Why do directory permissions differ between server and client (NFS)
I have a Synology NAS and want to share a directory on it via NFS to a Linux client. Mounting works fine, but the group/everyone permissions differ
I did not manually configure the NFS server side. I ...
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problems with NFS systemd automount
I am using systemd to automatically mount a NFS partition on a notebook with Arch.
Problem:
If dolphin had a folder of the NFS share opened when closing and I change the network, it refuses to open ...
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Read/Write speed monitor of NFS
I would like to see the disk read/write speeds for a network attached storage drive mounted via NFS. I am copying large amounts of files from a local disk to the network attached drive.
running df -h ...
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NFS: how can i make nlockmgr relinquish a port
I was running Nfs-server on a rhel7.8 machine. Now the NFS server has been stopped but a Port 35191 is listening on the server, verified it using netstat and telnet. I tried various ways to find the ...
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NFS/RDMA on CentOS 7, small files corruption
In an HPC environment, we have 2 nodes family, one running 7.1.1503 (kernel 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64) and the other, newer, running 7.7.1908 (kernel 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64). Both mount an NFS/RDMA ...
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Why are directories under /mnt not visible when mounting filesystem with NFS?
I setup an NFS share on my NFS server with /etc/exports containing / *(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
Then I do exportfs -a to activate the share and restart the nfs server.
I mount the share ...
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nfs mount on sub directory
I'd like to mount two nfs folder on local linux machine (nfs4)
Is it okay to mount as following? (note 2nd mount point is overlapped with the 1st mount)
# /etc/fstab
svr1:/folder1 /mnt nfs ...
svr2:/...
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getting nfs 4 to work in redhat/centos 7
Running RHEL 7.9 and trying to do nfs between a few servers on a LAN.
I am always getting nfs v3 as the mount.
Is there a way to get the latest version of nfs to happen, which is 4.2 I think according ...
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list all network storage based mounted filesystems in Linux
My requirement is to find out all such directories in Linux which are mount points for network based storage/file systems (like NFS , SSHFS, CIFS, SMB, etc)
I did some research, and there is no ...
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NFS permission denied with sec=krb5p
I'm setting up NFSv4.2 with MIT Kerberos (sec=krb5p) on two Hyper-V VMs running Debian 11 (Bullseye). When I use machine-based authentication (sec=sys), everything works fine. With Kerberos (sec=krb5p)...
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GUI access NFS share for write
I have Gnome 3 on Ubuntu and I have issue with write permissions for nfs.
I mounted storage to /mnt/data/some_files.
I want write files to data directory but with GUI I get permission denied, but ...
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what's the difference: /etc/nfs.conf vs /etc/sysconfig/nfs in RHEL/CentOS 7
in RHEL 7.9, there is /etc/nfs.conf and /etc/sysconfig/nfs.
why the two?
which one should be edited, and should one and not the other be edited ?
It seems /etc/nfs.conf has more in it, but both have ...
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nfs: what does it mean the "-" character?
On man exports I see
/srv/www -sync,rw server @trusted @external(ro)
what does it mean the "-" before the options sync and rw?
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Infiniband RHEL7, NFS RDMA setup & help
Hoping someone can provide help as to what I am doing wrong or missing:
Have 3 test servers (hostnames node1..3) each with a Mellanox MT28908 family infiniband card, model CX653105A
Have Mellanox HDR ...
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A question about krb5p and sys on nfs shares
I made some shares with nfs
This is the /etc/exports file(I know the no_root_squash is dangerous but is only temporary, for testing)
/srv/nfs4 10.3.0.0/24(ro,no_subtree_check,fsid=0,sec=...
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Two NFS exports pointing to same location (somehow)
I'm running an NFS server with two exports:
/mnt/sda1 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0(rw,fsid=1,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0,insecure)
/mnt/sdb1 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0(rw,fsid=1,...
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What is the most elegant way to use the same NFS-mounted home directory on more than one computer at the same time?
I have a server which hosts everyone's home directories. The server /home is mounted using NFS as /home on each workstation. I use the same UID/GID for users on the server and on each workstation.
I'd ...
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Centralized $HOME for roaming devices - sync instead of NFS?
For over a decade now I have been working in a full Debian environment in my small office (currently 1 server, 7 users, 3 desktops, 4 laptops). Authentication is based on Kerberos, user profiles are ...
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Infinite loop traversing NFS-mounted filesystem (QNAP server)
I have an NFS mount that has recently developed a problem whereby the mounted filesystem can't be traversed:
find /media/photos/
runs fine for a while, then degenerates into an infinite loop over ...
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NFS4_Setfacl VS. Setfacl?
It's my understanding that when you use setfacl it's only directly on your NFS server and NFS_SETFACL you run on the clients only? Is that a correct statement?
If that is a correct statement, what ...
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mkdir as another user based on configuration file
We have a shared Linux environment where most files are mounted to many machines on a NFSv3 share, which we do not control. Since we only have basic filesystem permissions available (No ACLs), we are ...
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NFS filesystem 100% full - 'No space left on device' error, cannot remove or truncate files
I'm getting a No space left on device error when I try to remove or truncate a file on a Ubuntu server. This seems to be because the NFS filesystem is 100% full and all inodes are used.
Running df -T ...
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Maximum open security on NFS export of shared directory
I have a huge problem with Kubernetes and permission problems with PVCs.
Here's my NFS export line:
/srv/nfs4 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,crossmnt,fsid=0)
/srv/nfs4/k8s ...
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xfs_quota and quota commands not working for NFS clients
I've been bumping up against this issue for years, but have never been able to find a resolution. Prior to RHEL7 (i.e. RHEL 5, RHEL 6, and CentOS 6), I was able to...
Implement user quotas on my NFS ...
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RHEL 8.3 autofs not mounting NFS directories
RHEL 8.3 64-bit
autofs.x86_64 1:5.1.4-43.el8
I'm trying to enable autofs for my system. I've followed the tutorials and, while they make sense, the network drives are not mounting and in some cases ...
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bash script help to check nfs mount exists [rsnapshot]
I have two linux servers; server two is a backup to server one where server two is NFS mounted to server one.
I use rsnapshot on server one to copy from /data/ to the nfs mounted folder /bkup from ...
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NFS client won't list files when using UDP
I have an NFS server (server1) that works fine with TCP, but when a client mounts it with UDP, while the mount point works, it can only list folder with no files in it. If there's a file in that ...
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Using Rsync to move then sync lots of data one way
EDIT:
Based on the two indepth answers I gave it a whirl:
rsync --progress -v -az -e “ssh” /archive/images/dcam/ root@10.x.x.xxx:/data/archive/images/dcam --dry-run
So --progress to see the results -...
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du shows more used space than available space showed by df [duplicate]
I have a remote linux server on which I'm seeing the following weird behaviour:
When I use du -ch /somedrive to get the total occupied space, I get 16TB.
But when I use df -h /somedrive to get the ...
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NFS service is not found
I unable to start nfs service
# systemctl start nfs-server
Failed to start nfs-server.service: Unit is masked.
# service nfs status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status nfs.service
Unit nfs.service ...
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Mountpoints on fileserver are being duplicated and nested. Can't find the cause
I have a Linux fileserver on my LAN. Recently some (but not all) mountpoints that are NFS shares are being duplicated, as shown by findmnt. This duplication occurs over a period of days after the ...
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Mounting shared folder from local NAS device
I'm trying to mount a folder from local NAS device. The model is Zyxel NAS 326.
On the Ubuntu 18.04 client, I try to run these commands:
# does nothing
sudo mount -v -o vers=3.0 -t nfs 192.168.1.33:/...
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Mounting subdir to a new NFS
I have a directory that is mounted with NFS.
10.159.31.81:/var/lib/phone /var/lib/phone nfs hard,bg,intr,vers=3,noatime 0 0
I want to test my new NFS servers but I don't want to move everything over. ...
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mounting an NFS folder as non-root in linux
I have an NFS server and client setup, both running Linux, and I'd like to be able to mount the shared folder from the client as a non-root user. It's possible do this with the user option in /etc/...
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Linux NFS mount on Solaris: Operation not supported on transport endpoint
Filesystem exported from Linux box, mounted on a Solaris box. On the Solaris box, certain operations fail on this filesystem. In particular:
$ touch z1; install --mode 0444 z1 z2
install: setting ...
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Howto log multiple sftpd server's activity which user's chrooted home is on shared NFS?
I have an Ubuntu server with sftpd running where /var/data/chroot/ is an NFS mount from a remote central NFS server, and each sftpd user's chroot home is /var/data/chroot/<username>/ and every ...
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