How to force fstab to work?

[chamelious]

I have to shutdown every time I’m finished atm because of the cec problem. My network share is mounted via fstab and it only works approx 1/10th of the time. I just had to reboot about 12 times before it worked. Why does this happen and how can I fix it? Is there anything I can do once it’s up to retry other than just rebooting

[ooZee]

Debug logs might help find/resolve this issue.

[fzinken]

@chamelious

Is there anything I can do once it’s up to retry other than just rebooting

Suggest to try autofs instead of fstab.

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

[skunkos]

Is your network storage really accessible via network when you turn your HTPC on?

[chamelious]

Thanks keep meaning to try this