[CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:45:17 John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all.  However,
> > as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved.  I was right that I
> > had missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the
> > server end were not correctly set up.  The guide on
> > http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jsp
> > x has got everything working again.
> > 
> > Thanks for trying to help.
> 
> I'd also suggest that you'd be better to not have these mounted directly
> from fstab.  Make a simple automounter map for these and your life is all
> round less troublesome.  You'll not suffer anywhere near as badly when an
> nfs mount is unavailable, and it'll recover gracefully once it's available
> again.
> 
Hi, John.  That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have 
to remember to disable the mounts before travelling.  The only problem is, I 
don't know how to do that.  Can you either describe it to me or point me to 
suitable reading?  Thanks

Anne
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