Hi there --

I am attempting to mount several NFS filesystems on a Fedora Core 2 workstation. The server that is exporting the filesystems is an HP-UX 11.00 system. I went through the motions of adding the workstation in question to the appropriate lines on the server's exports file and then ran the exportfs -a command for the changes to go into effect.

I then modified the fstab file on the workstation and then ran the mount -a command. The following message appeared on screen:

mount: backgrounding "<server>:/diskarray/stripe3/photon_common_clinical"
mount: backgrounding "<server>:/diskarray/stripe10/photon_data2/cases/adult-general"

I ran the df command and saw the NFS filesystems in question had not been mounted. What else do I need to do to correct this? Thanks.

when an NFS mount is backrounded it usually means a timeout has ben reached, check the path to the server, run dfshares to see that everything has been shared correctly, check that all you NFS daemons are running

Try starting the nfs service from the source server as root: service nfs start

To keep the nfs service persistent after reboot as root: chkconfig nfs on