From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 03:03:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEFE16A40F for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sahil@tandon.net) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C2F13C459 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sahil@tandon.net) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 09 Jan 2007 22:03:23 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id MTJ58801; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:03:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from 207-237-238-104.c3-0.avec-ubr15.nyr-avec.ny.cable.rcn.com (HELO [207.237.238.104]) ([207.237.238.104]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 09 Jan 2007 22:03:16 -0500 Message-ID: <45A45773.8020604@tandon.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:03:15 -0500 From: Sahil Tandon User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Free BSD Questions list References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090205.45A455AC.009B,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.125/2006-10-10 Subject: Re: How to prevent a filesystem from getting checked by fsck? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:03:24 -0000 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Have a server with 3 large filesystems. > I would like to have only one checked by fsck and mounted. > The other two I want to fsck and mount manually. > > Is it enough to change options to "rw,noauto" and pass to 0 for the two > I don't want mounted or fscked? See "man 5 fstab": If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the file system will not be auto-matically mounted at system startup. and If the sixth field is not present or is zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck(8) will assume that the file system does not need to be checked. -- Sahil Tandon