From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 23:34:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BFF16A415 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.10.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2B2043CA2 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:33:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 2683 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2006 23:34:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=fguhSGVkq1dpTI9o/B/yq2XW0bWYQzljk/y5yoLgVGjwWd4MNBavmWa17ySKocuCwJoZupY/XFE3PVhruHxBbk1lkXw5Og45kD/tyh2UCCenibjHA97OCzAOA58QcfTA3mFF3us+5KdS/aCKlV5kFvg1EkHCaHcQzE/K5cuscDk=; X-YMail-OSG: SjMtwisVM1lEEjIUoS5viI3.1DSv31sxc9GrxtUH75EGfPoeDoZpdnu4.E.ShePc5_EeFy4G_Vnm6M9NZsiNzj5YFCO35ZtdVvklQv9UBLJkap7wivZRANQmuNEL2cNci4Irx8SYDYBa Received: from [83.67.67.49] by web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:03 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Davison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <989739.2161.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Automount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:06 -0000 I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well. The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly. I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and /t. My question is....... If I dont have the StorEdge running 24/7 and I reboot the server, the boot process fails when mounting the file systems as /s /t can not be reached. Is there anyway of writing an automount line in fstab that is smart enough to know that if the /s and /t are not reachable then continue with the boot process without stopping. My fstab enty is... /dev/da0s1d /s ufs rw 0 0 I see that the cdrom has the entry /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Is it simply a case of changing the mount option to rw,noauto ?? --------------------------------- Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" – The Wall Street Journal