Where/How are NFS Shares Configured?

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi tikitofu,

@tikitofu

So, I started fresh and installed OSMC on a new card. To my surprise, all of my NFS shares seem to be setup! I was able to easily add my libraries with no setup on the pi.

These are being software mounted, which is fine; but you will better throughput with kernel mounted (fstab.)

@tikitofu

That brings me to my problem. I’ve also installed plexmediaserver - like I did in my old build. In plex, I can’t find where my nfs drives are. Normally, I would mount these to specific folders I can find by navigating to them. Any ideas? Thanks!

You may need to mount these via fstab for plexmedia server, you should be able to set these up the same way as on raspbian. You would be better of setting up fstab mounted nfs shares, as it will result in less buffering.

@tikitofu

Hi, I recently switched to OSMC from a build where I basically installed kodi on top of raspbian. On that build, I had to modify my fstab to add my NFS share drives to see them in kodi. This was a pain to figure out and also had issues where it would lose the connection everytime I had to reboot (I had to do a ‘sudo mount -a’ too often despite making them autoboot).

To prevent having to remount on reboot, I would recommend an entry like this in the fstab:

ip:/path/to/nameofshare /mnt/nameofshare nfs x-systemd.automount,noauto,ro

you will need to sudo mkdir /mnt/nameofshare

If provided further details of the device your sharing the nfs shares, I can advise further.

Thanks Tom.