/boot won't mount through fstab

James McDonald james
Mon May 17 11:48:56 PDT 2004


> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Tom Wilson wrote:
>> /dev/hda1  /boot  ext3  defaults,noauto  1  2
>
> noauto usually means, do not automatically mount at bootup.
>
I noticed my gentoo install recommends doing the noauto thing so that the
boot partition in general remains unmounted...

I hadn't heard that there was a boot partitiion corruption risk but hey
I've only been using linux for ~4 yrs. Still got a lot to learn.




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