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Automount NFS share in Linux using autofs On Ubuntu

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Autofs is a service in Linux like operating system which automatically mounts the file system and remote shares when it is accessed. Main advantage of autofs is that you don’t need to mount file system at all time, file system is only mounted when it is in demand.</div>
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Autofs service reads two files Master map file ( <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.master</span> ) and a map file like<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.misc</span> or <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.xxxx</span>.</div>
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In ‘/etc/auto.master’ file we have three different fields :</div>
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In map file (/etc/auto.misc or /etc/auto.xxxx) also we have three different fields:</div>
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In this article we will mount the NFS share using autofs. NFS share ‘<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/db_backup</span>‘ is exported from Fedora <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NFS Server</span> (<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">192.168.1.21</span>). We are going to mount this nfs share on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu" target="_blank">Ubuntu  </a>Linux using autofs.</div>
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Add the following line in the master map file.</div>
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</span><span style="color: lime;">/dbstuff   /etc/auto.nfsdb   --timeout=180</span></span></pre>
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Save & exit the file.</div>
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Create the mount point.</div>
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Add the following line in the map file.</div>
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</span><span style="color: lime;">db_backup   -fstype=nfs4,rw,soft,intr   192.168.1.21:/db_backup</span></span></pre>
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Automount NFS share in Linux using autofs On Ubuntu

NFS share using autofs in Ubuntu Linux. Autofs is a service in Linux like operating system which automatically mounts the file system a...

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<span style="font-family: PT Serif, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">Autofs is a service in Linux like operating system which automatically mounts the file system and remote shares when it is accessed. Main advantage of autofs is that you don’t need to mount file system at all time, file system is only mounted when it is in demand.</span></span></div>
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Autofs service reads two files Master map file ( <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.master</span> ) and a map file like<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.misc</span> or <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/auto.xxxx</span>.</div>
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In ‘/etc/auto.master’ file we have three different fields :</div>
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In map file (/etc/auto.misc or /etc/auto.xxxx) also we have three different fields:</div>
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In this article we will mount the NFS share using autofs. NFS share ‘<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/db_backup</span>‘ is exported from Fedora <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NFS Server</span> (<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">192.168.1.21</span>). We are going to mount this nfs share on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/centos7" target="_blank">CentOS 7</a>  Linux using autofs.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Steps to mount nfs share using Autofs in CentOS 7.</u></span></span></h3>
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Install the <b>autofs </b>package using below yum command if it is not installed.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step:2 Edit the Master map file (/etc/auto.master )</span></span></h4>
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Add the following line .</div>
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/dbstuff  /etc/auto.nfsdb  --timeout=180</span></span></pre>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: navy; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note :</span></span> Mount point ‘<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/dbstuff’</span>‘ must exist on your system. If not then create a directory ‘<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mkdir /dbstuff</span>‘. NFS Share will automatically umount after 180 seconds or 3 minutes if don’t perform any action on the share.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step:2 Creat a map file ‘/etc/auto.nfsdb’</span></span></h4>
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Create a map file and add the following line.</div>
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Save and exit the file.</div>
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Where :</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">db_backup is a mount point.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-fstype=nfs is the file system type & ‘rw,soft,intr’ are mount options.</li>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step:3 Start the auotfs service.</span></span></h4>
<pre style="background: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-radius: 7px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', monospace; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 18px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ~]# </span><span style="color: lime;">systemctl </span><span style="color: white;">start autofs.service</span><span style="color: lime;">[root@hackthesec ~]# systemctl enable autofs.service</span><span style="color: white;">ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/</span><span style="color: lime;">autofs.service</span><span style="color: white;">'
[root@hackthesec ~]#</span></span></pre>
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Mount point of nfs share will be ‘<span style="color: #990000;">/dbstuff/db_backup</span>’. When we try access the mount point then <b>autofs </b>service will mount nfs share automatically.</div>
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