22.7 Accessing NFS Filesystems in Cockpit

In addition to mounting a remote NFS file system on a client using the command-line, it is also possible to perform mount operations from within the Cockpit web interface. Assuming that Cockpit has been installed and configured on the client system, log into the Cockpit interface from within a web browser and select the Storage option from the left-hand navigation panel. If the Storage option is not listed, the cockpit-storaged package will need to be installed:

# apt install cockpit-storaged

Once the Cockpit service has restarted, log back into the Cockpit interface at which point the Storage option should now be visible.

Once selected, the main storage page will include a section listing any currently mounted NFS file systems as illustrated in Figure 22-1:

Figure 22-1

To mount a remote filesystem, click on the ‘+’ button highlighted above and enter information about the remote NFS server and file system share...