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Dell EMC Configuration Guide for the S4048T–ON System 9.14.2.4

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Mounting an NFS File System

This feature enables you to quickly access data on an NFS mounted file system. You can perform file operations on an NFS mounted file system using supported file commands.

This feature allows an NFS mounted device to be recognized as a file system. This file system is visible on the device and you can execute all file commands that are available on conventional file systems such as a Flash file system.

Before executing any CLI command to perform file operations, you must first mount the NFS file system to a mount-point on the device. Since multiple mount-points exist on a device, it is mandatory to specify the mount-point to which you want to load the system. The /f10/mnt/nfs directory is the root of all mount-points.

To mount an NFS file system, perform the following steps:

Table 1. Mounting an NFS File SystemMounting an NFS File System
File Operation Syntax
To mount an NFS file system: mount nfs rhost:path mount-point username password

The foreign file system remains mounted as long as the device is up and does not reboot. You can run the file system commands without having to mount or un-mount the file system each time you run a command. When you save the configuration using the write command, the mount command is saved to the startup configuration. As a result, each time the device re-boots, the NFS file system is mounted during start up.

Table 2. Forming a copy CommandForming a copy Command
Location source-file-url Syntax destination-file-url Syntax
For a remote file location:

NFS File System

 copy nfsmount://{<mount-point>}/filepath/filename} username:password tftp://{hostip | hostname}/filepath/filename

Important Points to Remember

  • You cannot copy a file from one remote system to another.
  • You cannot copy a file from one location to the same location.
  • When copying to a server, you can only use a hostname if a domain name server (DNS) server is configured.

Example of Copying a File to current File System

DellEMC#copy tftp://10.16.127.35/dv-maa-test nfsmount://
Destination file name [dv-maa-test]:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.!
44250499 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#
DellEMC#copy ftp://10.16.127.35 nfsmount:
Source file name []: test.c
User name to login remote host: username

Example of Logging in to Copy from NFS Mount

DellEMC#copy nfsmount:///test flash:
Destination file name [test]: test2
!
5592 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#
DellEMC#copy nfsmount:///test.txt ftp://10.16.127.35
Destination file name [test.txt]:
User name to login remote host: username
Password to login remote host:
!

Example of Copying to NFS Mount

DellEMC#copy flash://test.txt nfsmount:///
Destination file name [test.txt]:
!
15 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#copy flash://test/capture.txt.pcap nfsmount:///
Destination file name [test.txt]:
!
15 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#copy flash://test/capture.txt.pcap nfsmount:///username/snoop.pcap
!
24 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#
DellEMC#copy tftp://10.16.127.35/username/dv-maa-test ?
flash:                  Copy to local file system ([flash://]filepath)
nfsmount:               Copy to nfs mount file system (nfsmount:///filepath)
running-config          remote host:
Destination file name [test.c]:
!
225 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC#

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