Re: Need some help please with an NFS mount in /etc/fstab

On 8/5/26 1:53 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> I want to add an NFS mount point to my desktop machine so that it can
> 'see' some files on a headless Raspberry Pi.
> 
> I have the basics working, I have installed NFS on the Pi and have
> exported the directory required. I can manually mount it on my Debian
> 13 desktop machine.
> 
> However I'm not quite clear how to add the mount point to /etc/fstab
> so that it will normally always be mounted but won't hang the desktop
> system's boot if the Raspberry Pi is not running or the mount fails
> for some other reason.
> 
> If I put 'nofail' as an option in the fstab entry will it stay failed
> or will it retry? Also would that cause a delay in boot if the mount
> isn't available?
> 


I think the answer to your questions is here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/347013/etc-fstab-meaning-of-nofail-if-noauto-is-already-specified

I'd normally use noauto for such case (and mount the NFS share manually, 
when I need to access it). If you'd like to have it mounted 
automatically, maybe autofs would be better for you:
https://www.linuxtechi.com/automount-nfs-share-in-linux-using-autofs/