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Red Hat Certified System Administrator EX200 (RHEL 10) · Domain 6: Create and configure file systems

Mounting and unmounting NFS network file systems (mount -t nfs, _netdev)

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NFS (Network File System) lets a server share, or export, directories that clients mount over the network as if they were local. The RHCSA tests the client side: finding a share, mounting it by hand, and making it mount at boot. The client tools come from the nfs-utils package, which is often already installed.

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