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Autofs

Autofs is used to automatically connect to my NFS storage on my containers/VMs so that they can share storage.

🛠 Installation

apt install autofs -y
sudo apt install autofs -y

Client

(
  apt install -y autofs && \
  echo '/mnt /etc/auto.nfs --ghost --timeout=60' | tee -a /etc/auto.master && \
  echo 'storage -fstype=nfs4,rw,insecure 192.168.2.19:/storage' | tee -a /etc/auto.nfs && \
  systemctl restart autofs.service && \
  systemctl status autofs.service
)
(
  sudo apt install -y autofs && \
  echo '/mnt /etc/auto.nfs --ghost --timeout=60' | sudo tee -a /etc/auto.master && \
  echo 'storage -fstype=nfs4,rw,insecure 192.168.2.19:/storage' | sudo tee -a /etc/auto.nfs && \
  sudo systemctl restart autofs.service && \
  sudo systemctl status autofs.service
)

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