On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:24:55PM +0100, dragoran wrote: > >nfs mounted dirs ... > > > > > but there should be an option to let it be done in the background .... > NFS mounts have the "bg" option. bg If the first NFS mount attempt times out, retry the mount in the background. After a mount operation is backgrounded, all subsequent mounts on the same NFS server will be backgrounded immediately, without first attempting the mount. A missing mount point is treated as a timeout, to allow for nested NFS mounts. -- Rikki. -- RHCE, RHCX, HP-UX Certified Administrator. -- Solaris 7 Certified Systems and Network Administrator. Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone. Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.