On November 17, 2014 7:50:27 PM CST, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 05:23:45PM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: >> On 2014-11-18, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >> > I've got a Venus DS3R Pro2 external drive unit with two drives set >up >> > as RAID-1, and the raid volume is formatted as ext4. >> > >> > it is listed in /etc/fstab as: >> > >> > >UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2 /mnt/backup ext4 defaults,users >0 2 >> > >> > if the external unit (which attaches via e-sata) is NOT powered on >when >> > the system boots, it hangs and drops to a maintenance prompt. >> > >> > I'd sure like to have it defer that particular mount and continue >to boot. >> >> You need the noauto option. >> >> >UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2 /mnt/backup ext4 defaults,users,noauto >0 2 >> >> It's actually documented in the mount man page (as well as the fstab >> page). >> >> --keith > >thanks, Keith. > >But I don't think that's what I want. I want it to mount when the >system >boots, but if for some reason it is not powered on, I don't want it to >hang up the whole boot process. > >noauto says it won't mount based on "mount -a", and AFAIK that's how >the filesystems from fstab all get mounted at boot. No? > >Fred If you used autofs to mount it, and nothing tried to access it, I wonder if that would help.