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JonDrnek
Asked: 2009-06-18 06:30:05 +0800 CST

Can I change the name of an NFS export

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I am exporting my /opt/target directory via NFS but I would like the nfs clients to be able to mount it as /target. i.e. I would like showmount -e to show /target not /opt/target. Can that be done?

linux centos nfs

4 Answers

  1. What you want is how NFSv4 works. In NFSv4, all the directories exported are from a single pseudo-filesystem where the real directories are mounted with --bind. See the Ubuntu NFSv4 Howto for an example.

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  2. Best Answer

    I'm pretty sure NFS does not allow for aliases. Symlinking is probably best, and it'll save you from moving the export as a whole to an illogical location (/target).

    The original suggestion here was to symlink /opt/target to /target and then export /target. NFS supports this and I don't know of any good reasons not to use symlinks this way.

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  3. You would need to change the path on the server. I'm not sure if you can export via a symlink, otherwise you'd need to move the path physically on the server. Looking at the man page for exports, you might be able to use the "refer" option.

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  4. Since for me wzzrd's answer didn't work and Kamil Kisiel's answer refers to an external source I'll describe here how it exactly works for the op's use case:

    sudo mkdir /target
sudo mount --bind /opt/target /target
sudo exportfs -arv

    results in output:

    exporting 192.168.178.90/24:/target
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