On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:32:42PM -0500, Jeremy wrote:
> On 10-12-06 03:21 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:24:53AM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
>>>
>>> On boot all other non-essential drives are auto-mounted (XP, W7, Centos 
>>> partitions).  How can I just have a list of drives that I do want mounted 
>>> or none at all.
>>>
>>> How to make this happen?
>>
>> On my system I edit the /etc/fstab file. File systems that are
>> automounted have 'auto' in their list of options.  File systems not to
>> be automounted have 'noauto' instead.
>>
>> Don't get this mixed up with auto as the file system, which tells the
>> system to make an educated guess as to what file system is used --
>> useful for things like floppy disks.
>>
>> The file system nake is the third field on a line in /etc/fstab; the
>> comma-separated options constitute the fourth field.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>
> What distro are you using? It should only be system volumes in fstab  
> afaik for debian/ubuntu.

Debian squeeze, Debian Lenny

There's even an option (called user) to allow users to mount specific 
volumes in the fstab.  Not sure how that counts as a "system volume".

-- hendrik
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