NFS mounts not being mounted at boot time.

[Brandon Vincent]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I am having trouble with a Ubuntu 14.04 system that is not mounting NFS files
> systems at boot time. I have installed nfs-common and have entries in
> /etc/fstab for the mounts.  I noticed that Ubuntu does not have a startup
> script to mount NFS disks (the way the RedHat machines I am used to do), since
> it is not possible to mount NFS filesystems when one mounts local system
> filesystems, since the network is not up yet.  On all of the RedHat systems
> there is an init script that runs later that mounts NFS file systems (and also
> fires up nfslock if needed).  This seems to be missing on Ubuntu (unless I am
> missing something).  What am I missing?

Are you using the "_netdev" mount option for the filesystem in fstab?

Brandon Vincent