diff --git a/cinder/tests/unit/test_nfs.py b/cinder/tests/unit/test_nfs.py
index 6af7f772f42..3c8ce6c821f 100644
--- a/cinder/tests/unit/test_nfs.py
+++ b/cinder/tests/unit/test_nfs.py
@@ -1283,13 +1283,13 @@ class NfsDriverDoSetupTestCase(test.TestCase):
             errno.ENOENT, 'No such file or directory.')
 
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(exception.NfsException,
-                                    'mount.nfs is not installed'):
+                                    '/sbin/mount.nfs is not installed'):
             drv.do_setup(self.context)
 
         mock_os_path_exists.assert_has_calls(
             [mock.call(self.configuration.nfs_shares_config)])
         mock_execute.assert_has_calls(
-            [mock.call('mount.nfs',
+            [mock.call('/sbin/mount.nfs',
                        check_exit_code=False,
                        run_as_root=False)])
 
@@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ class NfsDriverDoSetupTestCase(test.TestCase):
         mock_os_path_exists.assert_has_calls(
             [mock.call(self.configuration.nfs_shares_config)])
         mock_execute.assert_has_calls(
-            [mock.call('mount.nfs',
+            [mock.call('/sbin/mount.nfs',
                        check_exit_code=False,
                        run_as_root=False)])
 
diff --git a/cinder/volume/drivers/nfs.py b/cinder/volume/drivers/nfs.py
index 9aea7337f92..c5ecf34074f 100644
--- a/cinder/volume/drivers/nfs.py
+++ b/cinder/volume/drivers/nfs.py
@@ -143,9 +143,14 @@ class NfsDriver(driver.ExtendVD, remotefs.RemoteFSDriver):
 
         self.shares = {}  # address : options
 
-        # Check if mount.nfs is installed on this system; note that we don't
-        # need to be root to see if the package is installed.
-        package = 'mount.nfs'
+        # Check if /sbin/mount.nfs is installed on this system;
+        # note that we don't need to be root, to see if the package
+        # is installed.
+        # We rely on the absolute path /sbin/mount.nfs; this seems to be
+        # common on most distributions (SUSE, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian)
+        # and it does not depend on correct PATH of the executing user,
+        # when trying to find the relative binary.
+        package = '/sbin/mount.nfs'
         try:
             self._execute(package, check_exit_code=False,
                           run_as_root=False)