NFS mount is stalling during boot

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Hi Noah,

On 19.09.21 23:30, Noah wrote:

> I am trying to figure out a way to fix this and not quite finding a solution that works.
> 
> Mounting an NFS drive is stalling the boot when the drive is unreachable.  I want my linux host to still boot even if the drive is not reachable.  distro is Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
> 
> here is the fstab entry
> 
> --- entry ---
> <ip>:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/Music     /media/Music  nfs auto,noatime,nolock,bg,soft,nfsvers=3,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
> --- entry ---
> 
> during the boot process the message claims "(2 of 4) A start job is running for /media/Music" (27s / no limit)"

That is expected behavior, simplest approach would be to put noauto (instead of auto) in fstab and mount it manually if you need it.
However I would recommend to install autofs which can automatically mount the NFS share on access (instead at boot time).

hth,
Thomas