Keith Roberts wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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 -- Yes indeed...the Hokey Pokey *is* what its all about!