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Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems

Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems

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Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems

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- [Instructor] The two main types of network files systems in Linux are NFS and CIFS. NFS stands for network file system and is the Linux and Unix default. CIFS is a network file system of Windows. In order to mount a remote NFS file system, we need to make sure we have the nfs-utils package installed. Then we'd want to create a mountpoint for the nfsshare such as /mnt/nfsshare. You can mount the nfsshare anywhere you want, but /mnt is set aside for network mounts. Mounting an NFS drive isn't that much different from mounting a local hard drive. The only difference is the path name of the network drive which has an IP address or host name in it followed by a colon, and then the remote path. In order for the network drive to be mounted at boot, it needs to be in the /etc/fstab. The device is 192.168.1.218:/share. This is a combination of the IP address and the remote path. The mount point is /mnt/nfsshare. The file system is NFS and the file system option is _netdev. This means that…

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