On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:03:40PM +0100, Rob Dupuis wrote: > Yeah, I thought that was probably the case. Is there any way I can boot the > machine and skip fsck running automatically, try to mount the drive and > salvage some of the data to another drive? (I should point out my system > drive is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective drive, its my 180G > data drive thats screwed.)
Sure. Edit /etc/fstab and add the keyword noauto to the entry for the suspect drive. You can of course check man fstab for more details. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
