On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:37 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2007/08/17 09:59 (GMT+0100) Dave Howorth apparently typed: > > > >> There's no need for noauto. Simply set the 'bg' option in /etc/fstab to > >> avoid having your system wait for non-essential mounts. Here's an > >> example of my nfs settings: > > > >> suse1:/home /home nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,noatime 0 0 > > > > I tried replacing noauto with bg, expecting to not need to manually mount, > > but it appears the mount never happens; at least, not within a few minutes > > of > > boot. How long until the mount should be completed? > > The mount should happen during boot of the client if the NFS server is > up. If the NFS server is down, the client should boot without the mount > and the mount should appear when the server becomes available. > > I had a problem yesterday with an old system that wasn't mounting NFS > disks at boot. I went into YaST and made it rerun its NFS client setup. > That fixed it. > > I suspect YaST had first been run with no automatic NFS mounts so wasn't > starting the NFS client at boot-time, then we'd edited fstab by hand, so > rerunning YaST made it notice that it needed to start the NFS client. > > I can't guarantee that my guess is correct, or that YaST works the same > way on recent systems, or that this is your problem :) But it might be > worth a try! > > Cheers, Dave I would suggest to use autofs. The mounts are base on the user.It will only mount when a user logs in. -- Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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