/boot won't mount through fstab

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:48:56 PDT 2004


On 07/02/03 14:53, James McDonald wrote:

>> 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.

I have mine mounted read-only, which sounds like a far more intuitive 
solution.

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