CentOS - Nov 2014 - mount options

Hi all!

I've got a Venus DS3R Pro2 external drive unit with two drives set up
as RAID-1, and the raid volume is formatted as ext4.

it is listed in /etc/fstab as:

UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2	/mnt/backup	ext4	defaults,users 0 2

if the external unit (which attaches via e-sata) is NOT powered on when
the system boots, it hangs and drops to a maintenance prompt.

I'd sure like to have it defer that particular mount and continue to boot.

I've been perusing various mount man pages, but don't see any ext4 (or
non-filesystem-specific) opotions to allow this.

Can any of you offer helpful advice in this matter?

Thanks!

Fred
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On 2014-11-18, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
wrote:
> I've got a Venus DS3R Pro2 external drive unit with two drives set up
> as RAID-1, and the raid volume is formatted as ext4.
>
> it is listed in /etc/fstab as:
>
> UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2	/mnt/backup	ext4	defaults,users 0
2
>
> if the external unit (which attaches via e-sata) is NOT powered on when
> the system boots, it hangs and drops to a maintenance prompt.
>
> I'd sure like to have it defer that particular mount and continue to
boot.
You need the noauto option.

UUID=f787c482-fb92-4ba7-87d6-cfeaef6b64c2	/mnt/backup	ext4	defaults,users,noauto
0 2

It's actually documented in the mount man page (as well as the fstab
page).

--keith

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