Re: fstab and removable usb drives
Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:51:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable
>> > usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-xxxx', 'LABEL-xxxx',
>> > and '/dev/disk/by-label/xxxx', but with any of these the system refuses
>> > to boot without manual intervention when the drive isn't attached (I am
>> > told to hit <ctrl>-D and something about maintenance mode). This
>> > occurs even when I set 'noauto'. Am I missing something, or are such
>> > fstab lines really illegal for setups where the volume may not be
>> > attached at boot?
>> >
>> > Celejar
>> > --
>>
>> Hm, noauto should skip it at boot. On one of my laptops I have this:
>> /dev/disk/by-id/xxxxxx /mnt/flash vfat user,noauto 0 0
>>
>> Boots up just fine..
>
> Thanks; I don't know what could be different about my setup (I'm
> running uptodate Sid), but it doesn't work for me, as above.
>
> Celejar
I'm also running up-to-date Sid. Here are my fstab entries of interest:
/dev/disk/by-label/PEN /media/pen vfat noauto,users 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/usb-80 /media/usb-80 ext3 noauto,users 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/usb-160 /media/usb-160 ext3 noauto,users 0 0
I rarely have the pen drive or usb HD's plugged in at boot. No problems
with this on five machines. The error message you report sounds a lot
like what is issued when fsck fails.
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