Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

2006-10-04 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:19:52PM -0400, stan wrote: > Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > NFS server machine is unavailable. Yes, although it is not documented (o

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

2006-10-03 Thread stan
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:49:57AM +0800, Ikmal Ahmad wrote: > On 10/4/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > >that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > > >The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > >NFS server mach

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

2006-10-03 Thread Ikmal Ahmad
On 10/4/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry that references a NFS mounted filesystem? The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine NFS server machine is unavailable. how about amd? which will mount automatically when fil

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

2006-10-03 Thread Peter Valchev
> Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > NFS server machine is unavailable. Read mount_nfs(8), there are options that do what you want. Of course understand that whil

NFS mount in /etc/fstab

2006-10-03 Thread stan
Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry that references a NFS mounted filesystem? The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine NFS server machine is unavailable. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)