On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote:
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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| Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?)
| that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I
| can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact?
|
| I have remote servers that I'd like to manually fsck one of the file
| systems after it comes up, but I don't have a serial console enabled on
| them (yet!) ... so, i'd like it to ignore that one file system on
| reboot, but still have it listed in /etc/fstab ...
|
| Setting 'passno' to 0, I believe, will cause it to fail to boot due to
| an unclean file system, so that doesn't appear to be an option ...
|
| Is that possible?
|
~From the fstab(5) man page:
...
If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the file system will not be auto-
~ matically mounted at system startup.
...
Just add noauto to the Options for that fs.
Perfect, thanks ... I've used that for cdrom, not sure why I didn't think
of it for a regular file system :(
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Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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