On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Russel Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I've probably spent more time on this than I should have. Maybe somebody can > help me out. I'm trying to set up an external drive in fstab on an Ubuntu > 8.04 machine so that I can mount it explicitly rather than on boot. The line > in fstab is: > /dev/sdc1 /media/backup vfat rw,user,noauto,noexec 0 0 > > When I try to mount it from the command line I get: > mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdc1 is already mounted on /media/backup > > It seems to be auto-mounting on boot. When I check mtab there is a line that > reads: > /dev/sdc1 /media/backup vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=rlc 0 0 > > Why would it auto-mount when I have the noauto option in fstab?
Just a guess... The USB/auto-mounting magic is mounting it regardless of fstab. For example, when you insert a USB thumb drive, it auto-mounts even though it is not in fstab. Does it auto-mount during boot, or after logging in to the window manager? My experience is that a USB drive will not be mounted during boot (unless fstab instructs it to be mounted), but when you log in to the window manager it will be detected and auto-mounted. Also, in fstab you probably don't want to use /dev/sdc1, because that could get assigned to a different device depending on what other USB devices might be plugged in. Safer to use the /dev/disk/by-id/*-part1 symlink. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
