On Sun, 01 Feb 2009, Arun Kumar Khan wrote:
> Alternately, create an entry in /etc/fstab allowing users to 
> mount/unmount the concerned partition(s).  Beware of the side effect - 
> if the disk is not present during boot time, you will dropped into a 
> single user shell.

You can add the option "noauto" to the fstab options column for the
file-system to avoid mounting it at boot time.

Secondly, you should prevent the filesystem check being applied to
this file-system at boot time by putting a 0 in the fsck column.

Kapil.
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