Mount NFS server and move SWAP to nfs share on the Raspberry Pi

2014-08-12T00:00:00.000Z

Before we can start with this on the Raspberry we need to make sure we have the NFS Server up and running. In my case this is a FreeNas box that has multiple disk running in zfs raid. After the share is set up on the server (/mnt/pool1/pi) we can switch to the Pi.

First we need to make sure the rpcbind service is running and started on bootup.

sudo update-rc.d rpcbind defaults && sudo service rpcbind start

Now we can test if we can mount our share before we add it to our fstab:

sudo mount YourNfsServerIp://mnt/pool1/pi /mnt

Check with df -h if the share is mounted.(normally when it doesn't show an error all should be ok.) My results:

pi@pi ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 7,4G 2,5G 4,7G 35% / /dev/root 7,4G 2,5G 4,7G 35% / devtmpfs 239M 0 239M 0% /dev tmpfs 49M 260K 49M 1% /run tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 97M 0 97M 0% /run/shm /dev/mmcblk0p1 56M 9,6M 47M 18% /boot 192.168.1.11:/mnt/pool1/pi 113G 7,5G 106G 7% /mnt

Now that all is working we can add a new line to /etc/fstab (change the ip with your own.)

192.168.1.11:/mnt/pool1/pi /mnt nfs defaults 0 0

Now that NFS is setup correct we can move the swap to a real drive. Let's start with cleaning and removing the old on the sd-card.

sudo apt-get remove --purge dphys-swapfile -y sudo rm /var/swap sudo rm /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile sudo update-rc.d dphys-swapfile remove

Now we can create and mount a new file.(1Gb change the value count=1024 if you need a smaller/larger swap)

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swap bs=1M count=1024 sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/swap sudo mkswap /dev/loop0 sudo swapon /dev/loop0

Check with free -m if you can see the swap file. Now we can edit our /etc/rc.local and add before exit 0

echo "Setting up loopy/mnt/swap.." sleep 2 losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/swap mkswap /dev/loop0 swapon /dev/loop0

Have fun.