[ale] Importing NFS on a FedoraCore 3 system

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:28 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> I have installed FC3 on a box on the home network (call it box4), and want 
> to automatically mount via nfs a directory tree from the server (call it 
> server) on bootup or at need. 
> 
> As root, I can mount the remote directory on box4, but the fstab file 
> indicates that FC3 is rewriting /etc/fstab every time the system boots.

sort of.
> 
> Does anybody know how to automount a nfs directory as a client under FC3?

Add the entry to /etc/fstab after the last _real_ hard drive and ahead
of any user mountable devices like CD's, usb drives, etc.. fstab-sync
manages the HAL devices such as those and it will remove the devices is
knows of.

Alternately (and probably best method), put the mount command in
rc.local.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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