On 2014-11-18, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > I've got a Venus DS3R Pro2 external drive unit with two drives set up > as RAID-1, and the raid volume is formatted as ext4. > > it is listed in /etc/fstab as: > > UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2 /mnt/backup ext4 > defaults,users 0 2 > > if the external unit (which attaches via e-sata) is NOT powered on when > the system boots, it hangs and drops to a maintenance prompt. > > I'd sure like to have it defer that particular mount and continue to boot.
You need the noauto option. UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2 /mnt/backup ext4 defaults,users,noauto 0 2 It's actually documented in the mount man page (as well as the fstab page). --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
