MAKING A MOUNT DIRECTORY IN LINUX

Making /mnt/softwares as a mount point in linux

 Open linux terminal and type the following command

#vi /etc/exports

Click enter and enter the directory path which you want to mount as shown below

Save it and exit

Restart the nfs service by typing the above command

Now the directory was mounted

In order to accesses this mount directory go to another linux machine and type the following command

 #mount –t nfs –o rw 10.0.0.17:/mnt/softwares /mnt/softwares

 Note: 10.0.0.17 is the ip address of the linux machine which contains the mount directory