On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 10:40 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > I have the following as the last line of my /etc/fstab file on a > computer running CentOS6.4.. > > UUID=3b550884-8d05-41a5-a205-17b6d7269dd1 /mnt ext3 > rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,nouser,async 0 2 > > The UUID refers to an ext3 partition of a removable USB drive. > > If the USB drive is not plugged into the computer the computer will not > boot. It seems that this is the incorrect behavior since "noauto" means > there is nothing to mount. > > I noticed this situation since an almost identical /etc/fstab on a > Fedora 18 computer will boot without the USB drive being plugged in. > > The reason this is important to me is that I want to plug my USB drive > into a running computer and then mount it with "# mount /mnt" so I can > do backups. > > Thank you, > Joe Hesse > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Add nofail option ? John