On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:45:38PM -0000, Andrew Nix wrote:
I have just upgraded to suse 9. My machine is set up as an NIS client. But it wont moount any home directories. Actually this isnt strictly true. In order to actually make it an NIS client in the first place I had to add a line to /etc/fstab to mount the home direcories, which looks like this:
homer:/home /home nfs rw 0 0
But when the machine boots, this line appears to be ignored. If I go to command line and type mount -a it reruns fstab and mount everything fine. My question is why doest this happen at boot up? Am I missing something this line that would stop it mounting at boot time?
The usual approach is to mount all non network filesystems at the start of the boot process. With mounting of network filesystems being done later. i.e. after configuration of the network.
I have had a look through the suse manual but it doest list many examples of options that can be used in fstab. All of them seem quite irrelavent for what I need to do. But also had a search on the net but couldnt Find anything of any help.
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