NFS: no mounts a boot time

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Hi,
I've got a problem with mounting via nfs - but only at boot time:
At boot time I see

Starting portmap [OK]
Mounting network filesystems [!!]

So my nfs directory is not mounted this way. But when I manually type

DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 10:57 am Post subject:

Enter th line inside the /etc/local.start :-)

mount -t nfs 192.168.0.23:/mydata /mnt/data

In this way i solved the problem...
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f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Thanks, pacman!

But isn't it better to do these things with fstab? I am afraid that the mounted directory will not be unmounted correctly, will it?
Thanks again
Felix

DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 3:34 pm Post subject:

The question is if ALL YOUR LOCAL NETWORK is UP when fstab is readed and executed by Linux.
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delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 3:34 pm Post subject:

Right, it is better to put mounts in fstab. But, to ease your unmounting concerns, just put "umount /mnt/data" in /etc/conf.d/local.stop.

By the way, you forgot to set the filesystem type to NFS in your /etc/fstab, which is probably your real problem.

It goes between /mnt/data and your mount options.

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Hi pacman, hi delta407,

I see that there is a workaround with local.start and local.stop.
Thanks for that!

But coming back to the question why it doesn't work at boot time:
1) Sequence: NFS mounts are (tried to be) done nearly at the end of the boot process. Portmap is started right before.
2) I better should have copied/pasted my fstab... In the real fstab "nfs" is NOT missing... sorry!

So, do you think it is a question of sequence/time? I'd like to solve this problem (rather than do workarounds) because I am going to configure a lot of gentoo systems and a lot of mounts ...

Could I somehow influence the boot order for testing purpose? What would you try next?

Greetings,
Felix

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 4:44 pm Post subject:

/etc/init.d/netmount is the script that would mount your NFS shares, and it is configured to launch after the network is up (hence "need net"). To see what, exactly, doesn't come up right, remove the > /dev/null and replace it with > /root/netmount.log or something so you can see the actual error message.