Mount options for external drive

[Hiisi]

2009/10/13 Andy Campbell <fedora at starsend.force9.co.uk>:
> Hi,
>
> I have an external eSATA drive, that is connected 90% of the time.
>
> As its not always attached I can't put in in /etc/fstab - as the OS won't
> boot it the device is missing - unless I'm missing some option.
>
> So I let it get auto mounted, I'm not sure by what mechanism, HAL,
> DeviceKit, gnome-mount or some combination of the above F11 has completely
> confused me.  Plus I seem to need to set filesystem-mount-system-internal
> to get it mount if initially plugged in on boot.
>
> So it all working, except I was looking for ways for setting mount options
> i.e noatime, nodiratime.  Is it possible ? Some sort of HAL policy ?
>
> Thanks for any advice
> Andy
>

On my F11-Gnome edition running most of the time in runlevel: 3 I have
the following line, for example, for floppy:
/dev/floppy		/media/floppy		auto	user,noauto	0 0
I can boot it without floppy inserted - no problems here. I have the
same lines for USB-drives and if I plug it after X-server has been
started I have the drive auto-mounted.
Probably Crag White will give you a better solution.
Ah, nearly forgot that! man fstab

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