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

On 8/5/26 13:53, 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?
> 

$ grep nfs /etc/fstab
192.168.0.1:/home/trash	/mnt/trash nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.0.1:/home/users	/mnt/users nfs defaults 0 0