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From: Bill Marcum on 24 Apr 2010 22:48
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On 2010-04-25, The Derfer <derf109(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If I put another hard disk (an old boot disk with a /, /boot and
> iother partitions) in a
> box that already has an "sda" drive that it boots from (bootloader on
> MBR), how
> can I stop the OS from trying to automatically detect and (more
> importantly) mount the
> filesystems on sdb? I tried this recently in Oracle Enterprise Linux
> and got kernel panics;
> the system almost seemed to want to use the "/" partition on sdb
> instead of sda,
> and it complained about non-ext3 filesystems on sdb (which made sense,
> they were xfs)
> that it couldn't mount? How can I tell the system "Don't try to
> mount anything on anything not
> already listed in /etc/fstab"?
>
How are the filesystems listed in fstab? By label or UUID?

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