Re: Mounting a USB device
On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:51:06 (+0000), Mick Ab wrote:
> If a filesystem in /etc/fstab has a noauto entry, can that filesystem only
> be mounted manually using the mount command or
> is there any chance that it will be automatically mounted by
> usbmount ?
>
> The filesystem is used in a USB port.
According to man fstab noauto protects against automatic mounting
by mount -a which is what's done at boot time. Your automounter
can't be using mount -a as that could mount totally unrelated
filesystems, so there's every likelihood that noauto is ignored.
Cheers,
David.
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