Re: [CentOS] How to stop automount

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Dick Roth wrote:

To: CentOS List centos@centos.org From: Dick Roth raroth7@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