[Tfug] Mount Question

[Adrian]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 14:35, Jim Secan wrote:
> I have a laptop that mounts several nfs filesystems from other servers on
> my office network.  These are all mounted by entries in fstab.  When I take
> the laptop on the road this causes the boot to be on the slow side while
> the system tries to find these fs's to mount.  I can think of a couple of
> hacks around this, but is there some way I can identify in the fstab that
> these systems are not to be mounted at boot time?  I could then mount them
> manually by a "mountall -t nfs" when I'm on the office network and want the
> mounts done.
>

As Paul said, add the "noauto" option to your fstab. You could also add a 
"user" option to the fstab entry as well.... That allows any normal user to 
mount/unmount that drive without special priviledges... a simple 
"mount /<mount_path>" to mount it when you need it.

Adrian