Can't mount NFS export

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Oct 11 10:07:58 UTC 2004


A. Lanza wrote:
> Thanks Paul, i tried that and got it running now.
> 
> What's the purpose of exportfs? Should i issue that command whenever i
> change exports in /etc/exports? I think that was the problem before...

exportfs updates the server's list of exported filesystems; the NFS server 
doesn't read the /etc/exports file directly. You should re-run exportfs after 
changing /etc/exports. It should get run automatically on booting if the NFS 
server is set to start on boot.

Paul.




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