Prerequisites
GCP account
Open Console
Open Menu > Compute Engine > VM Instances
NB : The Instance should be created in the VPC network
Click on SSH of the Instance
Use the following commands to install NFS on Debian or Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get -y update &&
$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common
Make a local directory to map to the file share:
$ sudo mkdir -p <mount-point-directory>
Open the Filestore instance
Copy the NFS Mount Point.
It is used to mount the fileshare on a Client VM
Mount the file share from the Filestore instance
$ sudo mount <ip-address:/file-share> <mount-point-directory>
Change ip-address:/file-share and paste the NFS Mount Point of your instance
Give your mount point directory of yours
Confirm that the Filestore file share is mounted:
$ df -h –type=nfs
Creating and mounting subdirectories on the file share
To create a subdirectory on the mounted file share
$ sudo mkdir -p mount-point-directory/file-share-sub-dir
Mount the subdirectory:
$ sudo mount ip-address:/file-share/file-share-sub-dir mount-point-directory/sub-dir
Confirm that the Filestore file share is mounted:
$ df -h –type=nfs
