Trying to get a NFS mount mounted under /Volumes/ in OSX is more difficult than it sounds.

You basically have to trick OSX into allowing you to mount the NFS share in /Volumes/ by using ../ in the directory listing.

Example:

cd /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

pwd
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

Using the ../ trick, which …

As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to set up some NFS shares on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Pretty painless, but I need the option to connect from my iMac, there were some additional hoops to jump through, to get everything to work correctly.

Steps

1. Install the necessary packages:

   sudo apt install …

I needed a quick SFTP server, and did a short post about it previously.

However, I wanted the ability to run a Docker container that wasn't on my NAS, so I had to mount the NFS share from within Docker.

Using this Docker composer file did the trick:

version: "3.2"

services:
  sftp:
    image: atmoz/sftp …