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[Guide] Auto-Mounting Filesystems in Linux

If you’re like me and use NFS to share files between multiple servers, you may occasionally run into a connection issue when you reboot - if the client comes up before the server, it won’t mount the NFS filesystems automatically. If you’re around, you can just remount them manually, but if it happens when you’re away you could be out of luck. One way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to use autofs for your NFS mounts. It’s super easy to set up, and once it’s configured the filesystems will mou…

I was hitting a wall trying to get my Plex server to automount my Unraid NAS shares with fstab and just could not get it to work no matter what. This guide was a huge sanity-saver since it provided another way to get the mounting to work.