Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:37:34 -0400 From: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system? Message-ID: <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us> In-Reply-To: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: | | Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) | that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I | can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? | | I have remote servers that I'd like to manually fsck one of the file | systems after it comes up, but I don't have a serial console enabled on | them (yet!) ... so, i'd like it to ignore that one file system on | reboot, but still have it listed in /etc/fstab ... | | Setting 'passno' to 0, I believe, will cause it to fail to boot due to | an unclean file system, so that doesn't appear to be an option ... | | Is that possible? | ~From the fstab(5) man page: ... If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the file system will not be auto- ~ matically mounted at system startup. ... Just add noauto to the Options for that fs. - -- Bob Bomar bob@bomar.us http://www.bomar.us/~bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCq6379Jm/aTrtdKoRAtj3AJ9UidrCbllUnJ7yXV22P/NWMW5DaQCfdg2+ rwkKV3b+NnKKUxCn7V9SZXw= =yVIT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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