boot ignoring my fstab?

Feminista · 02-10-2005, 10:39 PM

I have a partition which I don't want to mount on boot, so I deleted it from my fstab and then restarted. However, it's still trying to mount the partition! I checked to make sure that the changes were saved, and they were. emacs of course created a backup with the name fstab~, but I don't think that should be affecting anything.

Is there anything special I have to do to initialize the new fstab or any such thing?

slakmagik · 02-11-2005, 12:20 AM

That's weird. Nope, fstab doesn't need any initialization I'm aware of. You could try putting it back and specifying explicitly 'noauto' but that shouldn't be necessary (and shouldn't really help, either). Is it possible some script is doing it? Try looking at rc.local or doing 'grep -iR mount /etc' and see if anything looks funny.

And what *is* your fstab and the 'fdisk -l'-type partition information on the problem partition? And what does 'trying to mount' it mean?