Sync folder with NFS between Linux machine

There are some use case where you need to access file over the network. One way is to mount it down to the machine.

First of all you need NFS software on both machine

sudo dnf install nfs-utils

This NFS service will communicate over TCP port 2049

If there is a firewall, you need to allow this port.

NFS Server and Client

Then execute it and run server on machine 1

# Machine 1 Server
sudo exportfs -r
sudo systemctl start nfs-server
sudo systemctl status nfs-server

And on the machine 2 you just mount the path

# Machine 2 Client
sudo mount 13.123.123.222:/home/ec2-user/share /mnt

The default mount location is /mnt but you can specify any path you want.

Enable fs-cache

The make the request faster you can enable cache with flag like below

sudo mount 13.123.123.222:/home/ec2-user/share /mnt -o fsc

Unmount the path

# Machine 2
sudo umount /mnt