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Nfs volume mounting issue

Phill1 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:13:05 GMT

I have client machine with linux when I try to mount to nfs volume it give me following error:

Failed, reason given by server: no such file or directory

I checked svm volume settings, policy, junction all seems good,

Thanks

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Ontapforrum — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:55:56 GMT

Hi,

To begin with could you give us this output:

::> volume show -vserver <vserver> -fields volume,junction-path

Some pointers to help you with it:
https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-ONTAP-Discussions/cDOT-NFS-export-failed-reason-given-by-server-No-such-file-or-directory/td-p/133270

https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1031480

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.cdot-famg-nfs%2FGUID-9F50E651-7926-4509-95B7-3E30A1E4CC5E.html

Let us know if the pointers don't help.

Thanks!

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Phill1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:16:34 GMT

> volume show -vserver DeptA -volume Sales -fields volume, junction-path
vserver volume    junction-path
-------       ------          -------------
DeptA    Sales         /Sales

on Linux client i can see the volume that mount on ontap as below

$ showmount -e salesStorage
Export list for salesStorage:
/ (everyone)
/Sales (everyone)

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Ontapforrum — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:42:02 GMT

I just created one for test purpose, and it just works. So, must be something missing in your config.

[root@redhatcentos7 /]# showmount -e 192.168.0.71
Export list for 192.168.0.71:
/vol_NFS (everyone)

[root@redhatcentos7 /]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.71:/vol_NFS /mnt/cdot-nfs/
[root@redhatcentos7 /]# cd /mnt/cdot-nfs/

Could you share the export policy for me. Also, could you tell me what is the security policy for the NFS volume and the root volume of the vserver where it is junctioned.

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Ontapforrum — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:05:02 GMT

Also, plz share the following:

1) Mount command : How you are mounting.

2) tail -f /var/log/messages

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Phill1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:15:55 GMT

issues has been resolved, I did two things first the file i mount with small letter it should be capital, miss-type(:, another thing is nfs-common service was dead/mask and has symbolic link to null: /dev/null so i tried to remove symbolic link and reload daemon to recreate again and it works fine

Thank you for your appreciated time in support

Re: Nfs volume mounting issue

Ontapforrum — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:33:40 GMT

Well done! Glad you sorted it out.