Linux – how to check if NFS is installed or working RHEL

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I have put the following line on /etc/exports

/media/drive/fedora     *(ro , sync)

then i did

exportfs -a

now my hostname is localhost.fedora

i want to install the linux from NFS but when i enter the
hostname and foldername it says folder can't be mounted.

How can i check that NFS is working and also how will the new machine will know the ip of

localhost.fedora

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Your question could really do with some more clarity. Apparently you have two machines. A NFS server and another that you're trying to install fedora to.

You should be able to specify the server to the installer by IP address. To check that NFS is working, try mounting it locally on the server. I.e. mount -t nfs localhost:/media/drive/fedora /mnt

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In order to share the subdirectories, I had to share the parent folder first with fsid=0. So on the server /etc/exports looks like this:

/var/shared 192.168.200.101(rw,fsid=0,sync)
/var/shared/folder1 192.168.200.101(rw,sync)
/var/shared/folder2 192.168.200.101(rw,sync)

then on the client /etc/fstab looks like:

192.168.200.201:/folder1 /home/nfsmnt/folder1 nfs4 rw 0 0
192.168.200.201:/folder2 /home/nfsmnt/folder2 nfs4 rw 0 0

I can then mount the folders as expected:

mount /home/nfsmnt/folder1

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yum -y install nfs-utils portmap

Prepare and modify /etc/exports for sharing files, that would similar to as shown below

/home/NFS-files 192.168.100.0/24(ro,sync)

/home/NFS-share */26(rw,sync)

/ISO 192.168.100.0/24(ro,sync)

service portmap start

service nfs start

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