[CentOS] How to stop automount

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Dick Roth wrote:

> To: CentOS List <centos at centos.org>
> From: Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [CentOS] How to stop automount
> 
> I just put a USB hard drive into service, but find that unless the drive
> is connected to my PC the machine won't boot and drops to a shell.
> Below is the line I added to fstab.  I thought that the option "noauto"
> would prevent the machine from trying to mount the drive
>
> /dev/sdb             /usbdrive           ext3    user,noauto,rw  0 2
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Any advice is welcome.
>
> Dick

We seem to be talking about 2 different uses for the USB 
drive.

Do you want to boot a Linux system from the USB stick, or do 
you want to mount the USB drive after the system is up?

Kind Regards,

Keith