[Cialug] fstab options

[David Champion]

Some versions of Linux will automount USB storage devices, floppies, 
cdroms... (i.e. Mandriva) if they're either present at boot, or plugged 
in later.

I believe Mandriva is using hotplug - http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/.

They used to use an automount daemon several versions ago, but that was 
somewhat problematic. The current method seems to be relatively stable.

-dc

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> Is there a way to set options in /etc/fstab such that if a partition is 
> present at boot it will be mounted, but if it is not present there 
> won't be any errors that halt the boot process? This is on Linux.
> 
> I am wondering because i have a portable USB drive and i'd like to be 
> able to unmount and remove it without worrying about any hassle on 
> reboot. As for why i'd be worried about rebooting a Linux box, well, 
> this is on my computer at work, which has some hardware issues. So far 
> it hasn't actually crashed on me but i need to reboot it about twice a 
> month because the (proprietary, ATI) graphics driver wedges in such a 
> way that the only effective solution is to log in remotely and reboot 
> the whole machine.
> 
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