Randall R Schulz wrote:
Basil,
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 03:00, Basil Chupin wrote:
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Just one point about this (from experience): do not leave the external drive plugged in when you reboot the system because if you do SuSE will put its details into fstab on boot; if you then remove the HD and try and reboot the system will not reboot but you will get a msg stating that there is problem with the file system(s). If this happens logon as root at the command prompt, type
This does not make sense. The fstab file is not read and acted upon until the system is booted and beginning its start-up processing. The inaccessibility of a drive listed in /etc/fstab may prevent normal system function in various ways, but unless the missing device holds the root file system volume / partition (specified elsewhere, of course), it will not prevent the system from booting.
Since when has it been a condtion for computers to operate in a sensible manner? :-) Try it yourself and see what result you obtain. BTW, this happened with SuSE v 9.3, mileage on other versions may vary of course. Cheers. -- The first myth of management is that it exists.