Appendix A. Using an NFS Share for Content Storage

Stop the satellite-maintain services on the Satellite host:

# satellite-maintain service stop

Ensure Satellite Server has the nfs-utils package installed:

# satellite-maintain packages install nfs-utils

You need to copy the existing contents of /var/lib/pulp/content to the NFS share. First, mount the NFS share to a temporary location:

# mkdir /mnt/temp
# mount -o rw nfs.example.com:/satellite/content /mnt/temp

Copy the existing contents of /var/lib/pulp/content to the temporary location:

# cp -r /var/lib/pulp/content/* /mnt/temp/.

Unmount the temporary storage location:

# umount /mnt/temp

Remove the existing contents of /var/lib/pulp/content:

# rm -rf /var/lib/pulp/content/*

Edit the /etc/fstab file and add the following line:

nfs.example.com:/satellite/content    /var/lib/pulp/content   nfs    rw,hard,intr,context="system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t:s0"

This makes the mount persistent across system reboots. Ensure to include the SELinux context.

Enable the mount:

# mount -a

Confirm the NFS share mounts to var/lib/pulp/content:

# df
Filesystem                         1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
nfs.example.com:/satellite/content 309506048 58632800 235128224  20% /var/lib/pulp/content
...

Also confirm that the existing content exists at the mount on var/lib/pulp/content:

# ls /var/lib/pulp/content

Start the satellite-maintain services on the Satellite host:

# satellite-maintain service start