How to remount drives which lost connection?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bo Berglund wrote:

>This Mint device seems to sometimes lose connection to an nfs share
>on the main LAN defined in fstab as follows:
>
>192.168.119.216:/home/bosse/www/VIDEO /mnt/video nfs tcp,noexec,intr
>0 0

[SNIP]

>I understand that I could for instance put an entry in crontab that
>will run the sudo mount -a command at say 3 minutes following a
>reboot, but it would be better if there is some existing argument or
>such that can provide the functionality....

Adding the "hard" option to your /etc/fstab line will make NFS keep
trying when the connection isn't available:

https://web.mit.edu/rhel-doc/5/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-options.html

You might also want to poke around in the nfs, fstab, and mounts man
pages for a whole lot of choices we're given for how NFS should be
allowed to behave.

-- 
Little Girl

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