[NMLUG] Disk-to-disk copying and booting

[aaron at boim.com (Aaron Birenboim)]

Matthew McCleary wrote:
> No; in fact, if I'm absent-minded I tend to forget to remove the
> backup drive from the server after the backup is completed. If someone
> else reboots the machine (this is a development server, and multiple
> people tend to use it and reboot it), I don't want the partitions on
> the backup drive to be mounted.
> 
> So we're thinking I should edit the /etc/fstab?

yea.  that seems to be ab elegant solution.
either remove fstab entries for the backup disks entirely,
or at least put the noauto option on there.

I can't see why that wouldn't work.
-- 
Aaron Birenboim        | This space available!
Albuquerque, NM        |
aaron_at_birenboim.com |
 >http://aaron.boim.com |