filesys Profile Keyword (Mounting Remote File Systems)

filesys server:path server_address mount_pt_name [[mount_options]]

This instance of filesys sets up the installed system to automatically mount remote file systems when it boots. You can specify filesys more than once.

Example:

filesys sherlock:/export/home/user2 - /home

server: - The name of the server where the remote file system is located (followed by a colon).

path - The remote file system's mount point name, /usr or /export/home, for example.

server_address - The IP address of the server specified in server:path. If a name service is not running on the network, this value can be used to populate the /etc/hosts file with the server's host name and IP address. If you don't want to specify the server's IP address (if you have a name service running on the network), you must specify a minus sign (-).

mount_pt_name - The name of the mount point on which the remote file system is to be mounted.

mount_options - One or more mount options (same as the -o option of the mount(1M) command) that are added to the /etc/vfstab entry for the specified mount_pt_name.

If you need to specify more than one mount option, the mount options must be separated by commas and no spaces (ro,quota, for example).