NFS/CIFS/iSCSI exports/shares are not automatically mounted at boot on a RHEL client
Issue
- NFS share is not mounting correctly at boot time as specified in
fstabfile. - Unable to mount nfs share at boot time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
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NFS/SMBFS mounts do not mount when the system boots up, however, running the following command after boot works to mount the NFS or SMBFS shares:
# mount -aNeed to know why NFS mounts didn't mount after reboot.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- NFS v3
- NFS v4
- Samba filesystem
- Filesystems on block-devices depending on networking (e.g. iSCSI)
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