Not able to mount nfs share on client "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"

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Issue

  • Not able to mount nfs share on client "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"
#  mount nfs-server:/export/test /tmp/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on nfs-server:/export/test,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • NFS client

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