[Cialug] fstab options

[Jerry Heiselman]

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:

/deev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto bg,soft

Let us know if this works.  I would like to do something similar and I don't
use Mandriva as dave had suggested.


On 3/22/06, Matthew Johnson <Matthew.Johnson at dnr.state.ia.us> wrote:
>
> Within fstab, in the options column for your USB, drive add the
> following: 'noauto'
>
> fstab example:
>
> #device        #mount pt  #fs     #options
> /dev/sda1     /mnt/USB   auto    noauto,user   0 0
>
> Matthew
>
>
> >>> daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU 3/22/06 3:23:46 PM >>>
> Is there a way to set options in /etc/fstab such that if a partition is
>
> present at boot it will be mounted, but if it is not present there
> won't be any errors that halt the boot process? This is on Linux.
>
> I am wondering because i have a portable USB drive and i'd like to be
> able to unmount and remove it without worrying about any hassle on
> reboot. As for why i'd be worried about rebooting a Linux box, well,
> this is on my computer at work, which has some hardware issues. So far
>
> it hasn't actually crashed on me but i need to reboot it about twice a
>
> month because the (proprietary, ATI) graphics driver wedges in such a
> way that the only effective solution is to log in remotely and reboot
> the whole machine.
>
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