Removing a Hard Drive

[Rashkae]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I have a Xubuntu 9.04 system.
> 
> It is working fine.
> 
> I added a second hard drive and mounted it as /home/backup
> 
> The second (new) hard drive died after 6 weeks. I have removed it and
> the boot sequence stops where it is trying to mount the second drive. I
> have to do a <ctrl>D to make it continue booting, then everything is
> back to working.
> 
> What/where do I have to fix to make it stop looking for the missing hard
> drive?
> 
> Kip

You have to edit your /etc/fstab file.  There you will find a line that
tries to mount /mnt/backup, and need only comment that line out (such
as, put a # in front of it)

You've obviously already edited this file when you first mounted your
hard drive as /home/backup.  I will only caution you that some of the
lines in this file can be long, and you need to be careful that they
don't get wrapped in some bizarre way.  If you edit with gedit, first
disable text wrapping in the preferences.  If you are editing from the
command line, try using nano -w /etc/fstab  (the -w switch disables line
wrapping, and should be used when using nano to edit configuration files.)