mount -a and noauto.

[Alexander Apprich]

Naoki,

Naoki wrote:
> Dear everybody on the list,
> 
>    Little question, if one had a set of mount points set to 'noauto' in 
> the fstab because one doesn't want them mounted at boot time, mount -a 
> will also ignore such mounts. Is there any single command that will 
> mount all unmounted partitions?
> 

AFAIK, no. A snip of man mount tells you why:

[snip]
noauto Can only be mounted explicitly (i.e., the -a option will not 
cause the file system to be mounted).
[/snip]

You can probably solve this by making a little script that does all the
mounts for you.

>    The reason I don't want these partitions mounted at boot is because 
> another node may have them mounted because of the shared disk setup I'm 
> using.
> 
> -n.
> 

Hth.

Alex