NFS mounts in /etc/fstab

[Greg Wildman]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 20:39 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> I have two filesystems defined in /etc/fstab that are mounted over NFS (let call
> them /foo and /bar).  During boot, the first mount (/foo) fails, and the second
> (/bar) is mounted OK.  After the machine is up and running, if I log in as root
> and type mount /foo, it mounts OK.  I had this problem since I installed Core 2,
> and after I upgraded to Core 3 last week, the problem is still there.  Both file
> systems are defined with exactly the same options in /etc/fstab, line after
> line, NFS server is same for both of them.  If I reverse the order in /etc/fstab
> (first /bar than /foo), that again the first one specified fails during boot,
> and I need to mount it manually.
> 
> Anybody else had this problem?  Is there any solution?

Have you defined the NFS mounts to mount automatically. If so, don't
make sure the last 2 fields are '0 0' and enable the netfs service

  /sbin/chkconfig netfs on

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Greg