On 10/28/2003 11:33 AM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:10:47 -0800 Jim Norton wrote:

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how do I go about stopping the boot process from mounting this drive automaically at boot but still give me the ability to do a "mount /backup" command from the script?

Put noauto as one of the parameters for the partition in fstab.

Yes, the noauto does what you want, but I will share a gotcha, having already done exactly what you are doing. Assuming you do not boot every day, by mounting and unmounting the drive daily?, you can be sure your drive will be fsck'ed on every boot, at least ext2 and ext3, don't know how reiser handles the mount count check. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.

On 10/28/2003 03:06 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:15:53 +0800 "Joe Morris (NTM)" wrote:

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you can be sure your drive will be fsck'ed on every boot, at least ext2 and ext3, don't know how reiser handles the mount count check.

Don't know about Reiser, but for ext2/3 you can adjust that with tune2fs.

But when its months between reboots, and a script mounts and unmounts a drive every night, you would almost have to disable it for it not to fsck the disk. If the drive isn't too big, it may be acceptable. I know I just decided to leave it mounted, so it would be checked less frequently. Now, though, I am thinking I maybe should set it to check every reboot, even if it takes a while (2x80G, 1 40G), since it goes so long between reboots. It might be a good idea to verify data integrity every few months, or at least a couple times a year. ;-) Linux runs so solid, that reaching a mount count of 20 could take a long, long time. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.