On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > I happened to reboot my server last night without a disk in one of the
> > cdrom drives. It caused the startup process to halt, dropping me to a
> > shell prompt as it tried to fsck the volume. Wasn't happy proceeding
> > until I fed the drive a disk. In my environment this is A Bad Thing;
> > there may be a disk in there or not, I need the freaking server to come up
> > and start running regardless.
> >
> > I checked my fstab, and the cdroms are listed thusly:
> >
> > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,auto 0 0
> > /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,auto 0 0
> >
> > Looking at the man page, the last column indicates the fsck type, and 0 is
> > supposed to mean that the device doesn't need to be checked during
> > startup. Am I doing something wrong, or is something broken?
> > 4.6.2-STABLE, BTW.
>
> I think you also want to make it 'noauto' rather than 'auto'.
> With the auto, you are telling it to try and mount the device and
> since there is no disk in, it can't.
Hmm. I thought of that, but realistically wouldn't you WANT your cdroms
to be automount for just that reason - they're removable media, for
pete's sake. I'm coming from a Solaris background, where this is handled
completely differently.
I guess I'm looking for the "best practice" method.
KeS
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