NFS mount fails

Question

newbie question - following the NFS instructions in AWS tutorial but when I use the -t options is fails.
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/create-network-file-system/
step 4 f and g. g. Paste and run the entire sudo mount –t nfs4… command in your SSH window.

sudo mount -t nfs4.1 -o nfsvers=4.1 ...... returns 
/sbin/mount.nfs4: invalid option -- 't'
usage: mount.nfs4 remotetarget dir [-rvVwfnsh] [-o nfsoptions]
options:
	-r		Mount file system readonly
	-v		Verbose
	-V		Print version
	-w		Mount file system read-write
	-f		Fake mount, do not actually mount
	-n		Do not update /etc/mtab
	-s		Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than fail
	-h		Print this help
	nfsoptions	Refer to mount.nfs(8) or nfs(5)
the -t option is gone but all the commands referenced in the tutorial and multiple searches have it. I've tried other options but

Answer

Hi, It looks like there is a typo in your command 
`$ sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize-1048576,hard,time0=600,retrans=2 fs-024391065c66b61a2.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/ efs
mount.nfs4: an incorrect mount option was specified`

"time0=600" should be "timeo=600".

If the issue still persists, let me know the error message when you tried to mount the EFS with 't' option.

Cheers, 
East

Answer

Hi,

If you look closely, it's not `-t nsf4.1` but `-t nfs4`.

Answer

Hi,
It looks like you have a completely basic version of the mount command that doesn't understand there are different types of filesystems that can be mounted (this is what the -t flag handles).

I suspect that if you install the nfs client/tools as part of the installation a different version of the mount command will be made available which does have the -t flag. (node you'd need the nfs client software even if the -t flag was there otherwise the software is not available that can talk to nfs).

How the nfs client is installed varies between different versions of linux - the most likely choice is probably:

sudo yum install nfs-utils rpcbind

if yum isn't on whatever linux version you are using then the next best choice is probably apt

sudo apt install nfs-common

Hope that solves it.

Cheers,
Rich

Answer

Welcome back!

As per your comment I can see that you specified the -t option to 'nfs4.1' which Donov already mentioned.

```
$ sudo mount -t nfs4.1 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize-1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 fs-024391065c66b61a2.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/ efs
```

I can see that you're OS is AL2023(Amazon Linux 2023) and the version of nfs-utils is nfs-utils-1:2.5.4-2.rc3.

By default `mount` command uses NFSv4 with `mount -t nfs`.
If you take a look inside of /sbin directory, you will be able to find /sbin/mount.nfs4 which is symbolic link of /sbin/mount.nfs
So `mount -t nfs4` will do the same.

-t option is for specifying the filesystem not the version. You will apply the protocol version at *nfsvers*.

If no version is specified, NFS uses the highest version supported by the kernel and mount command.

Kindly try to mount your EFS as below command and let me know if the issue still goes. I'd be glad to help.

```
$ sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport fs-024391065c66b61a2.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/ efs
```

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