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When setting up an NFS server and setting up the 'ro' or 'rw' permissions, how do the ext4 permissions come into play? Thanks.

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Hello,

The ext4 permissions must be in place for read write before you attempt to access a directory via nfs. If you can't mount the ext4 partition as read-write then it does not matter what the nfs settings are as no-one can write to the partion period. Usually you set up a specific directory on a drive that is then made accessable via nfs but you don't have to. In one of my file servers I mount the second volume group as the directory /nfs and that directory is owned by the head nfs user and assigned to the group that all of the nfs users are a part of. I actually have two different nfs users that can access the drive, one as /nfs and the other as /nfs_ro with the second group only being able to read files from the drive but not write them.

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