Mounting NFS drives only when docked

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Does anybody have any good utility or algorithm suggestions for setting
up automatic NFS mounts from my server to my laptop whenever I boot it
up in its home docking station?

What I want is to have my cake and eat it too. I've moved and
reorganized more than 100G of stuff off my 48G and 80G laptop drives
onto the new server (where it's safe!). I don't want to maintain copies
of that much stuff on the laptop. Besides, once in a while I'd like to
use the DVD/CD-RW drive in the expansion bay the second hard drive has
been living in. I think I will replicate on my laptop the directory
structure now in /pub on my server, then use NFS to mount them back on
the laptop.

I could edit /etc/fstab and do this brute force. But I think I'll always
face the choice between manually and automounting them. If I manually
mount them in dock, then I won't have to wait for a couple of dozen NFS
mounts to fail when not docked?

Is there a better way?

--Doc


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