How to connect a NFS share to Linux based musicplayers

NFS uses about 30 % less processor capacity of your NAS then SAMBA or CIFS. Thats why.

  1. Check if NFS on your NAS is enabled.
  2. Check if SSH on your player is enabled.

Commands (capitals our important)

ssh volumio@
pswd:volumio

command
cd /data/INTERNAL/ (change to this directory)

command
pwd (prints now directory where you are working)

command
mkdir music (create directory called music)

command
ls (list you see now your directory music)

command
sudo nano /etc/fstab/
pswd volumio

below the other entry´s ad this line one entry add the time
use tab button to jump to next sextion of the file (or columms)

:

/data/INTERNAL/music

nfs

users,rw,auto
0

0

press

confirm with y

enter

sudo nano /etc/fstab/

check if our entry is there

close windows

reboot

update music libary in volumio

Jan

Just mount the NFS using the webUi… No need cmd line :wink: