nfs filesystems can not be mounted automatically after reboot

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the following fstab. The nfs filesystem can not be
>>> automatically mounted after reboot. I have to run 'mount -a' to mount
>>> them. Does anybody know how to enable automatic mount?
>>>
>>> $ cat /etc/fstab
>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>>> #
>>> # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
>>> # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
>>> # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
>>> #
>>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>>> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
>>> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>>> UUID=11bf0413-4054-492e-b5f3-b1b074fc4ea4 /               ext4
>>> errors=remount-ro 0       1
>>> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>>> UUID=685e3202-fe16-424f-bf7f-8d562ed29e16 none            swap    sw
>>>           0       0
>>>
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home    /home   nfs     rw      0       0
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/data   /data   nfs     rw      0       0
>>> #pearson nfs
>>> yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:/pearson/data    /pearson/data   nfs     rw      0
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Peng
>>>
>>
>>
>> You might try adding auto to the options in your fstab line:
>>
>>  yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:/pearson/data    /pearson/data   nfs     rw,auto      0
>>
>> Also, as a side note, you might want to try using nfs4 if your nfs
>> server supports it.  It is generally faster and more reliable (there
>> are other good things about it like better locking as well)
>>
>> Here is my fstab entry (bob is my servername):
>>
>> bob:/var/data/samba  /var/data/nfs/bob         nfs4    rw,auto  0 0
>
> I'm not sure if the server support nfs4 or not. Do you know how to check it?

You must have it but you can check with
grep -i nfs_v4 /boot/config-...