Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

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I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#External_devices

looks like this will do it. no-fail and a systemd timeout

Aha, interesting, thank you. So setting nofail and a time out of, say, 5s should work... but what then when I try to access the share, will it attempt to remount it?

Look up "automount". You can tell linux to watch for access to a directory and mount it on demand.

This is also what I'd like to know, and I think the answer is no. I want to have NFS not wait indefinitely to reconnect, but when I reconnect and try going to the NFS share, have it auto-reconnect.

edit: This seemed to work for me, without waiting indefinitely, and with automatic reconnecting, as a command (since I don't think bg is an fstab option, only a mount command option): sudo mount -o soft,timeo=10,bg serveripaddress:/server/path /client/path/