unwanted mount

V P list307 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 04:01:02 UTC 2005


On 15/09/05, Vassilios Kotoulas <fedoralist at kotoulas.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using FC4 with newest updates and gnome desktop. I have a partition
> which I don't want to be mounted automatically. Here's the line of
> my /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hda3               /mnt/hda3               ext3    noauto,user     1 0
> 
> When I log in, the partition is mounted. When I unmount it it stays
> umounted until I log out/log in again. Then it's mounted again.
> Who mounts this partition at login and how can I turn it off?

It is mounted because it is added in /etc/fstab. Just delete/comment
out the line and the partition wont mount on boot.

VJP

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