Drives in fstab automounting

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Sat Mar 17 13:04:36 PDT 2007


Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.


You th' Man!
Thanks!



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