[Cialug] fstab options

[Chris Hilton]

Neither bg nor soft appear on the mount man page.

I think all you can do is put in noauto and try to mount it in /etc/rc.local 
or something.

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:11, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
> I'm not sure with USB devices, but I know under NFS you have two options
> you can add that do this.  They are bg and soft.  Perhaps they will work
> this way under a USB filesystem.  Your line in fstab might then look like
> this:
>
> /deev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto bg,soft
>
> Let us know if this works.  I would like to do something similar and I
> don't use Mandriva as dave had suggested.
>
> On 3/22/06, Matthew Johnson <Matthew.Johnson at dnr.state.ia.us> wrote:
> > Within fstab, in the options column for your USB, drive add the
> > following: 'noauto'
> >
> > fstab example:
> >
> > #device        #mount pt  #fs     #options
> > /dev/sda1     /mnt/USB   auto    noauto,user   0 0
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> > >>> daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU 3/22/06 3:23:46 PM >>>
> >
> > 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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