<div>I'm not sure with USB devices, but I know under NFS you have two options you can add that do this. They are bg and soft. Perhaps they will work this way under a USB filesystem. Your line in fstab might then look like this:
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<div>/deev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto bg,soft<br><br>Let us know if this works. I would like to do something similar and I don't use Mandriva as dave had suggested.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:Matthew.Johnson@dnr.state.ia.us">Matthew.Johnson@dnr.state.ia.us</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Within fstab, in the options column for your USB, drive add the<br>following: 'noauto'<br><br>fstab example:
<br><br>#device #mount pt #fs #options<br>/dev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto noauto,user 0 0<br><br>Matthew<br><br><br>>>> <a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU">daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU</a> 3/22/06 3:23:46 PM >>>
<br>Is there a way to set options in /etc/fstab such that if a partition is<br><br>present at boot it will be mounted, but if it is not present there<br>won't be any errors that halt the boot process? This is on Linux.<br>
<br>I am wondering because i have a portable USB drive and i'd like to be<br>able to unmount and remove it without worrying about any hassle on<br>reboot. As for why i'd be worried about rebooting a Linux box, well,<br>this is on my computer at work, which has some hardware issues. So far
<br><br>it hasn't actually crashed on me but i need to reboot it about twice a<br><br>month because the (proprietary, ATI) graphics driver wedges in such a<br>way that the only effective solution is to log in remotely and reboot
<br>the whole machine.<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake<br>University<br>Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave
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