Timeout for mounting

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi, ALL,
I have a laptop with Gentoo installed, which sometimes needs to connect to my home network.

Is it possible to put some kind of timeout in the /etc/fstab so that when I'm not at home skip the mounting of my home network?

Thank you.

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

Yes, this should be possible. Assuming you are using NSF look at this link/comment for the syntax:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/fstab-best-practices-with-nfs-874810/#post4325905