Mounting dir takes 2 mins

leupi · 04-10-2006, 04:23 AM

I have a laptop that dual boots SuSE 10 and Kubuntu 5.10 and I have a problem when I try to mount a directory that I have on the server. In SuSE the directory mounts immediatly after typing the command. I then put an entry in /etc/fstab and automount the directory on boot. When I am in Kubuntu mounting the directory takes literally 1min 45secs (I timed it) after typing the command. If I put an entry in /etc/fstab then the boot up time of the laptop increases considerably.

I had Ubuntu 5.10 a month or two ago and had the same problem. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
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fouldsy · 04-10-2006, 04:27 AM

What filesystems are you trying to mount and have you applied any specific security permissions to them?

Off the top of my head, it could be it's running some integrity checks before mounting them, but why it would do it each time I don't know unless fstab isn't correct. Let us know what filesystems you're dealing with and post the content of /etc/fstab

leupi · 04-10-2006, 02:57 PM

I don't have the entries in /etc/fstab as it was taking too long to boot the computer. When I type it at the command line I use:

Code:

mount acsserver:/shared /shared/server

And it works, but it takes 1min 45secs in Kubuntu but in SuSE it only takes a matter of seconds.

As far as the file system, it is NFS. I don't think that I have any specific security permissions applied. This problem only seems to be an issue with Kubuntu...

Thanks

leupi · 04-11-2006, 08:38 PM

I tried mounting the directory as such:

Code:

sudo mount -t nfs acsserver:/shared /shared/server

Hoping that that might do a bit better but no such luck.

I would like to take SuSE off of the laptop and only use Kubuntu but waiting 2 mins to mount a directory is a bit much. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

fouldsy · 04-12-2006, 03:49 AM

Can it resolve the server IP address okay? Try pinging acsserver and see what kind of response times you're getting. It might help by adding in an entry within /etc/hosts for the server, but I haven't done much with NFS I'm afraid so not sure what else could be going on.

leupi · 04-12-2006, 02:16 PM

It pings the server just fine (that was the first thing that I did). I did put an entry in /etc/fstab for the server also. This is pretty frustrating as it only happens when I am booted into Ubuntu, as I said, SuSE is fine. Thanks for all of the suggestions though.

leupi · 03-17-2007, 07:59 AM

I know that this is an old thread but I just realized that I never posted my fix. I had to install a package called 'portmap'. Is this package not installed by default in dapper? Anyway, all is fine now, thanks. BTW, is there a way to mark a thread as 'Solved' or something similar?

Thanks,
Todd