On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Dick Roth wrote:
> To: CentOS List <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Dick Roth <raroth7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: 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
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