Red Hat

We have a load of servers which require cloning in VMWare, each of which have their own area on netapp for storage. I was trying to be a bit clever and use a variable within /etc/fstab so I dont need to edit it every time like so;

Code:

netapp:/vol/vol_nfs_server/servers/`hostname | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk {'print $1'}`    /opt/server     nfs     defaults        0 0

Mounting it from the command line like the above works fine (obviously) but not from within fstab upon a reboot. Is there anyway of doing so?

Basically it just needs to find the hostname and remove the domain name from the end of it e.g. server1 instead of server1.mydomain.com

Why don't you do the mount from a start up script instead which you can place on all servers before cloning?