So I feel really bad for asking this question because it looks like it has been asked a million times on the internet. I am even finding a very consistent answer, and I am not getting any errors when I try the solution I found, but it is still not working.
Here is the issue. I have an ntfs partition on an external hard drive that I do not want to mount on startup (sound like a freaking common problem or what?).
I have found this question asked all over the internet, and the single answer that comes back pretty much unanimously is I should be using the "noauto" option in fstab for the device. Even the man pages for fstab states:
"noauto do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time)"
Sounds like that is what I want right?! Well I am using that option and the drive is still mounted by the time I log into my account.
Here are my fstab entries for the 2 partitions that are on the same external drive:
#External 2TB driveUUID=8598c4fc-171a-4324-a4d3-06145d12ceba /media/Storage ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2#Windows compatability partition on external drive does not need to be mounted.UUID=751E843A54B3D902 /media/Windows\040Compatability ntfs noauto 0 0I am at a total loss for why the noauto option is not working like I expect it to, but when I start up my pc the drive is available and mounted at the location specified (/media/Windows Compatability). I tried changing the options (like user/nouser) and those behaved as expected. Just the noauto is completely baffling me.
Thanks for any help.
B.
PS: If you are curious about the use case, there is a 2TB ext4 partition on the drive, and then a small ntfs partition on it. The point of the ntfs is to carry some windows tools for reading ext4 when I have to use my drive on a strange machine.