Mounting NFS on a Mac Client

About this task

Use this procedure to mount to the cluster manually from the command line:

Procedure

  1. Open a terminal. For example, you can click on Launchpad > Open terminal.
  2. At the command line, enter the following command to become the root user:
    sudo bash
  3. List the NFS shares exported on the server. For example:
    showmount -e usa-node01
  4. Set up a mount point for an NFS share. For example:
    sudo mkdir /mapr
  5. Mount the cluster via NFS. For example:
    sudo mount -o hard,nolock usa-node01:/mapr /mapr
  6. List all mounted filesystems to verify that the cluster is mounted. For example:
    mount