[SOLVED] Mount only if the NAS is running…

Hello Heiner,

thanks for your reply. But this didn’t work.
The problem is not the scanning of the files.

When my Raspi is booting, it mounts the network share which stores all of the music.
But the NAS is still booting when the RasPi is trying to mount. Since the mount fails, the corresponding directory is empty.

If I reboot the RasPi or if i mount manuall once the NAS is running everything is fine.
So I’m looking for a script that delays the mount until the NAS is ready.

But it is not that urgent.

Alright, I got it working. Instead of delaying at boot, i added a script that does the following:
If the directory is mounted –> do nothing
If the directory is not mounted:
– check if the NAS is reachable (using ping)
– if yes, mount

here’s my code (don’t forget to add noauto to your mountpoint in fstab)

#!/bin/bash

if mount | grep /mnt/Music > /dev/null; then
        echo "/mnt/Music already mounted - nothing to do"
else
        echo "/mnt/Music not mounted, pinging discworld"
        if ping -c 2 "myServer" >/dev/null; then
                mount /mnt/Music
                echo "/mnt/Music successfully mounted"
        fi
fi

in the end, i’m calling this script every minute in crontab:

* * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mount_nas.sh

Thanks for your help heiner!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by GumbyMan.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by GumbyMan. Reason: Corrected typo and added information about noauto in fstab