having a normal user mount nfs filesystem

Linda Hanigan haniganwork at earthlik.net
Sun Feb 4 02:53:18 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:27 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:43:16 -0600
> Linda Hanigan <haniganwork at earthlik.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have been mounting our nfs with
> > mount 192.168.1.3:/usr/local/lib/letters /usr/local/lib/letters
> 
> To allow users to mount nfs try a line like something like this in /etc/fstab :
> 
> hostname:/home/foo  /mount-point/nfs-foo   nfs   noauto,users,rw,hard,intr 0 0
> 

Will it hang at boot if the server is down so the nfs is unavailable if
I add this to fstab? I assume it would be okay since it doesn't actually
mount it. Just asking because some of the stuff I read as options could
create a system lock if the server was down.
                         Thanks
                         Linda





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