cancel mounting network filesystems at startup

[khuongdp]

When my box tried to mount network filesystems (nfs) at startup how can I cancel this operation, because the box is not on the network or the server is down. Right now it just hang and I can do anything.


Maybe I can specified a timeout in the /etc/fstab for my nfs drives

[aetius]

Easiest is probably 1 of two things:

1) use rc-update to turn off the netmount service, and use the service to control whether or not you mount the drives (i.e. mount them manually with /etc/init.d/netmount start).

2) Edit /etc/fstab and add the "noauto" option to those drives; in this case you will have to mount each manually when needed with "mount /mnt/sample_nfs_mountpoint" or whatever.