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