Re: fstab, nfs

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.374A86F2.F6E2D6D7@student.liu.se>,
Johan Pettersson  <johpe159@student.liu.se> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have put this string in my fstab: localhost:/win/dir  /ftp/site/dir 
>nfs
>But it does not work! (I can mount when type mount -t nfs
>localhost:/win/dir
>/ftp/site/dir) 

NFS mounting through fstab is done very early in the bootprocess. At
that point, your local NFS server is not running yet. So this cannot
work.

It will work if you use autofs, something I recommend for every NFS
mount anyway (well not for / and /usr on diskless workstations).

Mike.
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