mounting linix drive upon boot

[l0ngb1t]

i have installed a NAS and shared a file on it with NFS, on my linux machine (debian 7) i can mount it successfully with the following command:

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mount -t nfs NAS_IP:/shared_folder /root/share

i tried to add the following line to fstab in order to be mounted automatically upon boot

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NAS_IP:/shared_folder /root/share 0 0

it is not working, i have to mount it manually every-time
any ideas on how to solve this?

[l0ngb1t]

ok i have solved it and i thought to share it.

first in fstab i should add

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NAS_IP:/shared_folder /where_to_mount    nfs     defaults     0    0

the problem was that S09mountall.sh (mountall do the mounting) is called in rcS.d before the networking service starts, and nfs kind aneeds networking service i linked it to rc3.d and named it S30mountall.sh (the S30 to give it a higher sequence number or order of execution)

so now mountall.sh is called after the network service starts, hence the mount is successful

[l0ngb1t]

ok it worked without the rc thingy i guess the syntax was just wrong
anyway i learned something new

[bad_brain]

nfs is usually autostarted during boot already, so no need to explicitly start it again...most likely the 2nd time you told nfs to start was the reason of the problem.
a very nice way to deal with the rc settings is through rcconf, simply install it via apt-get....