From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 03:37:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638E716A422 for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:37:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@ibsd.us) Received: from chaos.fxp.org (chaos.fxp.org [216.155.111.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C86A43D4C for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:37:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@ibsd.us) Received: from localhost (localhost.fxp.org [127.0.0.1]) by chaos.fxp.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8656128455; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:37:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chaos.fxp.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (chaos.fxp.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04093-04-3; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:37:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.1.196] (ip68-101-86-100.ga.at.cox.net [68.101.86.100]) by chaos.fxp.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F672845E; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:37:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:37:34 -0400 From: Bob Bomar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" , questions@freebsd.org References: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fxp.org Cc: Subject: Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system? 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: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:37:41 -0000 -----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-----