NFS Mount question - What are the required options in /etc/fstb?

[Sean Crosby]

Hi Jay,

Make sure that the nfs-common package is installed on the failing machine

Sean

On 17 September 2012 13:40, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have an interesting question: Why does one work and the other does NOT?
> The only difference (I know of) between the two systems is ursa was an
> upgrade from 10.04.4LTS to 12.04.1LTS and kodiak is a fresh install. Both
> are up to date. Is kodiak missing a software package, if so which one?
>
> WORKS -->
>
> cdjsys at ursa:/$ cat /etc/fstab |grep nfs
> #polar:/archive /archive nfs rw,noauto 0 0
> koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive  nfs     rw,noauto,nolock        0 0
> cdjsys at ursa:/$ sudo mount /big_archive
> [sudo] password for cdjsys:
> cdjsys at ursa:/$ df |grep koala
> koala:/nfs/cdjsys 973391744 13308704 960083040   2% /big_archive
> cdjsys at ursa:/$ uname -a
> Linux ursa 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:54:40 UTC 2012
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> cdjsys at ursa:/$
>
> and
>
> FAILS -->
>
> cdjsys at kodiak:~$ cat /etc/fstab |grep nfs
> # entry for nfs:cdjsys on koala
> koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive  nfs     rw,noauto,nolock        0 0
> cdjsys at kodiak:~$ sudo mount /big_archive
> [sudo] password for cdjsys:
> mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported
> cdjsys at kodiak:~$ uname -a
> Linux kodiak 3.2.0-30-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 17:14:09 UTC
> 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> cdjsys at kodiak:~$
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
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