Drives in fstab automounting

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>For anyone running older SuSE:
>Installed SuSE on a new drive and am finding that other drives in fstab 
>are being mounted without request on boot up.  Any idea where such a 
>thing might be initiated; perhaps some init.d thing?  Perhaps there is 
>some GUI adjustment I can make to "make it stop"?

Are these hot swappable devices or permanent hard drives?

If they're hard drives, change the fourth field in the /etc/fstab
file to noauto (or add it) and the last two fields to ``0 0'' to
prevent automounting and automatic file system checking.

Bill
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