[NBLUG/talk] Wierdness with fstab (on FC5) and noauto

[Jeff Coffler]

Hi Kyle (and others),
>
> I believe your issue is that the last column (pass) is set to 2. This
> column lets the system know what order it should fsck drives at boot. Since
> these drives aren't present it errors. I would recommend changing both that
> and the previous column to 0 and trying again
Correct!  I changed those numbers to zero, and it now worked (the system 
came up without problem even though one of the drives wasn't in the system).

So a few more questions:

1. The behavior I want is: if the disk is in the machine, it should be 
mounted.  If it's not, it shouldn't be mounted (and it shouldn't cause 
the boot process to abort due to that).  Is that possible with fstab today?

2. If not, then do I need to say: "defaults,noauto" to get default 
behavior except for noauto, or can I just say "noauto"?  If I can't do 
#1 above, then I may just use "users" and then have a cron job try and 
mount the drive if it's not currently mounted.

Thanks,

    -- Jeff