On Thu, 17 May 2012 11:08:08 +0100 Jonathan Allen wrote: Personally, I use a script in rc.local that checks /proc/mount against /etc/fstab and tries to mount anything that isn't already mounted - it is the only way I've found to make network mounts reliable. Seems hit or miss otherwise.

On Thu, 17 May 2012 10:52:15 -0500 (CDT) Matthew J. Roth wrote: This will probably get mangled due to a few long lines, but I'll give it a shot. In the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script I have this line: /usr/local/bin/bg-mount-nfs That /usr/local/bin/bg-mount-nfs script looks like: #!/bin/bash # # Background mounts for each of the nfs filesystems appearing in # /etc/fstab not marked as noauto # PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" export PATH sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /etc/fstab | grep -w nfs | grep -w -v noauto | cut -f2 | while read mountpoint do nohup /usr/local/bin/mount-filesystem "$mountpoint" > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null & done And the /usr/local/bin/mount-filesystem script it backgrounds for each filesystem looks like: #!/bin/bash # # Argument is a mountpoint, keep trying to mount the thing till # it appears in /proc/mounts. # PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" export PATH if [ -z "$1" ] then echo Hey\! Missing mountpoint argument\! 1>&2 exit 2 fi check=`sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /etc/fstab | cut -f2 | fgrep -x "$1"` if [ "$check" = "$1" ] then : else echo "$1" does not appear as a mountpoint in /etc/fstab\! 1>&2 exit 2 fi while true do check=`sed 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /proc/mounts | cut -f2 | fgrep -x "$1"` if [ "$check" = "$1" ] then exit 0 fi if mount "$1" -o fg then : else sleep 10 fi done

On 05/17/2012 06:08 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote: You can try enabling NetworkManager-wait-online.service. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage

On 05/17/2012 09:54 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Are you sure that the local /home disk partition is mounted BEFORE the NFS mount occurs? It could be that the NFS mount occurs at /home first, then the local /home mount occurs, overlays the NFS mount and hides it. Ditto with the /share mountpoint. Before you do the "mount -a", do a simple "mount" and verify that you haven't got the local partitions overlaying the NFS mounts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------