https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273896#M334663 soft = return an error if the remote server does not respond.<BR /><BR />rw = mount read/write capable<BR /><BR />suid = allow suid scripts<BR /><BR />For specifics for NFS mounts do a:<BR /><BR /># man mount_nfs Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:58:20 GMT Patrick Wallek 2008-09-22T18:58:20Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273895#M334662 I've checked the man pages for fstab and mount but the information was a bit jumbled...on one of our servers we have an nfs file system being mounted my question is about all the options at the end:<BR />someserver-p1.some.domain.com:/bckup /nfs/bckup.someothers nfs |soft,rw,suid 0 0|<BR /><BR />What are the options between the pipes? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:48:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273895#M334662 Dave Cast 2008-09-22T18:48:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273896#M334663 soft = return an error if the remote server does not respond.<BR /><BR />rw = mount read/write capable<BR /><BR />suid = allow suid scripts<BR /><BR />For specifics for NFS mounts do a:<BR /><BR /># man mount_nfs Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:58:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273896#M334663 Patrick Wallek 2008-09-22T18:58:20Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273897#M334664 and also have a look at this:<BR /><BR /><A href="http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0714/ch02s03.html#bghdijij" target="_blank">http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0714/ch02s03.html#bghdijij</A> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:16:27 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/nfs-question/m-p/4273897#M334664 Kenan Erdey 2008-09-22T19:16:27Z