fstab and mount question

[Darryl Clarke]

On Apr 11, 2005 3:45 PM, Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:32 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > In /etc/fstab I have:-
> > > /dev/sda4       /mnt/pd         ext2    rw,users,noauto  0       0
> > >
> > > whenever I boot up /dev/sda4 is always mounted.  Why is that?
> >
> >
> > Well, that's what fstab is for, so all is well.
> >
> > If you didn't want to mount this partition at boot, why did you add this
> > entry in fstab ??
> >
> 
> the noauto keyword should prevent the system from mounting that entry on
> bootup.

The fstab line is fine...

I'm assuming it's gnome-volume-manager that is mounting it.

If it's a USB/FW, hotpluggable drive it'll show up on the desktop. 
I'm not sure if there's a way to prevent it from doing that on boot
and still functioning after login to mount usb sticks, cdroms, etc.

But, look in that direction :)

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