How to Mount an NFS File System

1. Make sure you have met the prerequisites listed in "Prerequisites".

2. Make sure the file system is available from a server.

   To mount an NFS file system, it must be made available from the server system. The share(1M) command creates a list of file systems on a server that can be shared across the network. See NFS Administration Guide for information on how to share file systems.

3. Mount the NFS file system.

   # mount -F nfs [-o mount-options] server:/directory mount-point

   -o mount-options	Specifies mount options that you can use to mount a NFS file system. See Table 28-2 for the list of general mount options or mount_nfs(1M) for a complete list of options.
   server:/directory	The server's host name on which the file system is mounted, and the name of the file system to mount.
   mount-point	The directory where the file system is mounted.

Example--Mounting an NFS File System

In this example, packages from the server pluto in the directory /export/packages are mounted on /mnt.

# mount -F nfs pluto:/export/packages /mnt