From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 03:56:57 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 9552216A41F for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:56:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B92843D1D for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:56:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC4964BFB2; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31205-04; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-176-51.eastlink.ca [24.224.176.51]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575B364BFB3; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6259938AA8; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6197B33C25; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:52 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:52 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bob Bomar In-Reply-To: <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us> Message-ID: <20050612005627.F90456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org> <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org 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 03:56:57 -0000 On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: > -----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. Perfect, thanks ... I've used that for cdrom, not sure why I didn't think of it for a regular file system :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664