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To: simon@masi.ibp.fr
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Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount' 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 07:14:26 -0700
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>I just got fed up with my DOS partition being mounted automatically
>at boot time, so I wrote a patch which enables the use of the 'noauto' 
>flag in /etc/fstab.
>
>For example:	 /dev/sd0s2              /dos    msdos rw,noauto 0 0
>
>This flag prevents a filesystem from being mounted when a 'mount -a' occurs.
>It works for every kind of fs , since it's defined as a standard 
>mount option. 

   That's an interesting option, but the "-a" switch stands for "all" - not
"auto". I suppose the first question that comes to mind is: if you don't want
the filesystem mounted with "-a", then why are you putting it in fstab?

-DG