Sergey, >From "man 8 fstab": The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
That last sentence is what you're interested in. Here's a sample from one of my systems: /dev/hdb2 /tstimage ext2 defaults 0 0 Alternatively, yes, you can leave those file systems out of /etc/fstab. Only those file systems that you want to be mounted automatically, or with special attributes, or by non-root users need to be in there. I personally like to have all my file systems in there, but it is not always necessary. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Korzhevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fstab and error disk Hello, All. If one disk from fstab can't be mount (power failure or something like it) Linux won't boot to normal operations. But maybe this disk realy don't need for system. Can I say to Linux, if you can't mount this disk, skeep it. Or I don't have to define such disks in fstab? WBR, Sergey
