NFS mounts not being mounted at boot time.

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:09:15PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> I am having trouble with a Ubuntu 14.04 system that is not mounting NFS files 
> systems at boot time. I have installed nfs-common and have entries in 
> /etc/fstab for the mounts.  I noticed that Ubuntu does not have a startup 
> script to mount NFS disks (the way the RedHat machines I am used to do), since 
> it is not possible to mount NFS filesystems when one mounts local system 
> filesystems, since the network is not up yet.  On all of the RedHat systems 
> there is an init script that runs later that mounts NFS file systems (and also 
> fires up nfslock if needed).  This seems to be missing on Ubuntu (unless I am 
> missing something).  What am I missing?
> 
Isn't there an option specifically for this case in the fstab?  The
man page for fstab mentions 'nobootwait' which is probably what you
want.  I think there may be an nfs option that applies too though.

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Chris Green