# Mounting with EFS access points
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You can mount an EFS file system using an EFS access point only by using the EFS mount helper. 

**Note**  
You must configure one or more mount targets for your file system when mounting a file system using EFS access points.

When you mount a file system using an access point, the mount command includes the `access-point-id` and the `tls` mount option in addition to the regular mount options. An example is shown following. 

```
$ sudo mount -t efs -o tls,accesspoint=access-point-id file-system-id efs-mount-point
```

To automatically mount a file system using an access point, add the following line to the `/etc/fstab` file on the EC2 instance.

```
file-system-id efs-mount-point efs _netdev,tls,accesspoint=access-point-id 0 0
```

For more information about EFS access points, see [Working with access points](efs-access-points.md).