fstab and mount question

[Jim Richardson]

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. 
-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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