linuxexpert-practice-labs/labs/rhcsa/6-2-nfs/README.md

RHCSA 6.2: Mounting NFS

Finding an NFS server's exports, mounting one by hand, and mounting it at every boot.

Before you start

The lab adds a second machine, server (10.99.0.2), running an NFS server that exports /exports/share and /exports/homes. There's a file readme.txt in /exports/share with a secret word in it. server shares this VM's files, so you could read the directory here too, but the tasks are about mounting it from server. The lab installs the NFS client tools (nfs-utils).

Tasks

1. List server's exports from this VM, and save the list in /root/lab-answers/1.
2. Mount server:/exports/share on /mnt/nfs by hand, read readme.txt there, write the secret word from it to /root/lab-answers/2, and unmount it.
3. Mount server:/exports/share on /mnt/nfs at every boot.

Hints

• showmount -e server; > saves a command's output.
• mkdir -p /mnt/nfs, mount -t nfs, findmnt /mnt/nfs, umount.
• A line in /etc/fstab with _netdev, then systemctl daemon-reload and mount -a.