Network shares not mounting during boot.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • A CIFS or NFS share in /etc/fstab is not being mounted during boot; however, it can be mounted with the mount -a command or manually with the mount command
  • Is the netfs service and _netdev option required to mount a network related filesystems at boot time with fstab?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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