[ale] Fstab fails

[Bob Toxen]

This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in
multiuser).

Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.

Bob Toxen

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:
> With NFS, I set fstab
> 
> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> 
> *note the noauto, this tells it to not automount.  If it tries to automount
> and is unable, your server will stall in startup.  So you put this entry in
> /etc/rc.local:
> 
> mount /ifs/fs02
> 
> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started upon boot
> time.
> 
> That way, the server starts up and then mounts the nfs under rc.local (where
> if the nfs share hangs, it would not affect the normal system startup).
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew
> RHCE
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > **
> > Wolf
> >
> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal ntfs drive
> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
> >
> > It has links to more network configuration.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> >
> > Can you think of any reason why fstab would not be read on reboot. Ubuntu
> > lucid have an nfs share that was not mounted automagically when I rebooted
> > the client machine. Broke a bunch of stuff.
> > Wolf
> > PS mount -a picked up and mounted the nfs directory.
> >
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