NFS Automount Using Systemd

NFS Client Setup

Manually mount the NFS target to verify.

mkdir /data/bile
mount -t nfs bile:/data/bile /data/bile
umount /data/bile

Using Systemd to Automount

File: /etc/systemd/system/data-bile.mount

[Unit]
Description=Bile NFS export

[Mount]
What=bile:/data/bile
Where=/data/bile
Type=nfs

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

File: /etc/systemd/system/data-bile.automount

[Unit]
Description=Bile NFS export

[Automount]
Where=/data/bile
TimeoutIdleSec=1200

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable --now data-bile.automount

Hyphen in NFS Export Path

If the NFS exported path contains a hyphen (eg. /data/1-bile) the systemd .mount and .automount filenames need to escape the - character with their escaped counterpart \x2d (eg. data-1\x2dbile.mount and data-1\x2dbile.automount).

The systemd-escape command can be used to list the correct escaped filename.

root@mike:/etc/systemd/system# systemd-escape -p --suffix=automount "/data/1-bile"
data-1\x2dbile.automount

root@mike:/etc/systemd/system# systemd-escape -p --suffix=mount "/data/1-bile"
data-1\x2dbile.mount

References

See nfs-server