Mount NFS Share in Ubuntu

Ubuntu OS setup

Table of contents

  1. Source Information
  2. Mount Synology NAS shared NFS drive using mount and fstab
    1. Install nfs-common for NFS client support
    2. Create the mount point and mount
  3. Update /etc/fstab

Source Information

There are many online walkthroughs on how to create a Synology NFS share, get its mount point for use in a Linux client’s fstab, and implement fstab for mounting. One of the better ones I have found is Setting up NFS on a Synology NAS at PiMyLifeUp. The information below is based on multiple sources and describes the implementation on one of my servers.

We will be using Ubuntu Linux fstab so that our Linux OS VM will mount the Synology NFS share every time the OS boots.

Mount Synology NAS shared NFS drive using mount and fstab

Do

Install nfs-common for NFS client support 

sudo apt install nfs-common

Create the mount point and mount

  1. Make the mount point:

    In this example, /mnt/nas will be the [MOUNTPATH] in the mount command, below.

     mkdir /mnt/nas

  2. Mount your Synology NAS volume to the mount point:

     mount nas.kurtshuler.net:/volume1/data /mnt/nas

    This is the syntax:

     mount [SYNOLOGY-IPADDRESS]:[SYNOLOGY-REMOTEVOLUME] [MOUNTPATH]

  3. Verify the mount is correct:

     df -HT

  4. Create a file to test the mount

     cd /mnt/nas
 touch test.txt

  5. Check your Synology NAS NFS share folder to confirm the file is in it.

Update /etc/fstab

We will add our new mount to the Linux OS’s fstab file so the Synology shared drive will always be mounted at boot time.

  1. Open fstab:

     nano /etc/fstab

  2. Append this line:

     nas.kurtshuler.net:/volume1/data /mnt/nas nfs defaults        0       0

  3. Reboot and check

     reboot

  4. Verify the mount is correct:

     df -HT