How to prevent a filesystem from getting checked by fsck?
Francisco Reyes
lists at stringsutils.com
Thu Jan 11 06:11:19 UTC 2007
Sahil Tandon writes:
> 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.
Thanks for the reply.
I read both fsck and fstab pages.. I just wanted to make sure that I was
reading the man pages correctly..
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