You can check this with a plain mount or findmnt command, but df -h will give you more human readable output illustrates how disk usage is displayed differently for the nfs shares: df -h You can double-check that they mounted successfully in several ways. These commands should mount the shares from the host computer onto the client machine.Or, you can use sudo as a prefix to the following commands. Well, here is what you have to do: First, become root: $ su.