NFS mounts not being mounted at boot time.

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Fri, 8 Apr 2016 20:21:12 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> 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?
>>
>> Are you using the "_netdev" mount option for the filesystem in fstab?
>
> No. Is this some Ubuntu 'feature' I need to include?

"_netdev" is a standard fstab option for network mounts.

"bootwait" is an upstart fstab option for network mounts.