systemd and filesystems with noauto

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Aug 23 16:03:17 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> Well, we took the liberty to interpret noauto a little bit differently
> than you: everything marked "auto" will be mounted at boot, and boot
> will not proceed until all devices listed as auto appeared and are fully
> mounted (or things timed out). File systems marked as "noauto" won't
> delay the boot process if they aren't, but they'll still be mounted when
> they are plugged in, regardless whether that is at boot or during
> runtime.

Please take the liberty to implement "noauto" as documented.  See "man
mount":

       noauto Can only be mounted explicitly (i.e., the  -a  option  will  not
              cause the filesystem to be mounted).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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