Keith Roberts wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Dick Roth wrote:
To: CentOS Listcentos@centos.org From: Dick Rothraroth7@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
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Folks, thank you very much for the advice. I am using the disk for system backup and then putting it in a safe. It does not have to boot the system. I did find that changing the last element of the line in fstab from 2 to 0 cured my immediate problem: the machine now boots properly without the drive physically attached.
Again, thanks to all. What a great community!
ttfn, Dick