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Mounting and unmounting network storage devices

Mounting and Unmounting Network Storage Devices

I'm using a small NAS storage server as network drive, which I mount the "Unix way" by NFS (Network File System), rather than using a Windows-compatible Samba client, which also would be supported by the device. That way, the mount point is accessible to all programs, not only the file manager or special clients that can use the smb:// protocol.

The command for mounting that I use under the directory name /media/volume1 is:

sudo mount -t nfs 10.0.0.20:/volume1 /media/volume1

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