Re: During boot, fsck tries to run against offline drive?
Hello
Darin Strait wrote:
> I have a Gateway with an i810e motherboard, 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide, with
> an additional USB2 drive that is generally turned off.
>
> During the boot process, I get a message along the lines of (this is
> from memory at 7 in the morning and I haven't had any coffee yet):
>
> fsck.ext3 /dev/sda1
> No such device or address while trying to open
>
> Press Ctrl-D to continue or enter the root password for maintenance
>
> This make sense, in a way, since the USB2 drive is turned off. OTOH,
> /dev/sda1 is marked noauto in my fstab and I don't understand why
> something seems to be trying to run fsck on it.
The noauto entry is used for mounting, not for checking. You have to set
the last entry in the line, which is probably set to 2, to 0.
Look at the fstab man page. The part about the sixth field at the end
explains it.
bets regards
Andreas Janssen
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