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doglover56
January 25th, 2009, 04:32 PM
Hello. I have a multiboot system with lots of partitions. I don't want to mount them all, and I set the mount point to the blank choice, but the installer seems not to like that choice even though it offers it and tries to force you to choose a mount point.

In the XUbuntu 6.06.1 partitioner (refer to prior post to see why I am using this older version), right clicking on a drive offers options to unmount or deactivate a partition. I am guessing that is what I want, but neither google nor a ubuntu search nor the installation manual explain these.

I have other OSes on computer, so I wanted to make sure that these options will not mess those up.

Does anyone know or have know of documentation explaining what unmounting or deactivating partitions in the partitioner does to the current or prior installs, and how they differ?

Thanks,
doglover

taurus
January 25th, 2009, 05:08 PM
Which partitions you don't want to mount at boot?

Open a terminal and post


sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

doglover56
January 25th, 2009, 10:01 PM
Here is fstab. I already know that I can edit fstab, which is what I did when I installed Ubuntu. I would like to try something different for installying Xubuntu, so the original question about unmount and deactivate still stands.
Thanks,
IMF


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda19
UUID=9dd517b0-6554-47df-b57a-eed08747721a / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda20
UUID=72bec888-5e80-4ff7-b3a9-e1e6ddaf03ee /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/hda1
# UUID=47BF-FBB1 /media/hda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda10
# UUID=BD11-9E6B /media/hda10 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda11
# UUID=FC17-8184 /media/hda11 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda12
# UUID=7A23-4DE6 /media/hda12 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda13
# UUID=3F05-E4A1 /media/hda13 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda14
# UUID=E064C2AC64C2852E /media/hda14 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda15
# UUID=000000007F93E58A /media/hda15 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda16
# UUID=4661-BD8D /media/hda16 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda17
# UUID=FCF4EDADF4ED69FA /media/hda17 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda2
# UUID=36408DAB408D7283 /media/hda2 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda3
# UUID=3847-1DFB /media/hda3 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda5
# UUID=3F05-CBE5 /media/hda5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda6
# UUID=3F05-CE7F /media/hda6 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda7
# UUID=3F05-DB47 /media/hda7 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda8
# UUID=3F05-DF4D /media/hda8 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda9
# UUID=7E0B-BEBE /media/hda9 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hdc2
# UUID=A4B3-127E /media/hdc2 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hdc5
# UUID=3F37-F963 /media/hdc5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,ro 0 1
# /dev/hda18
UUID=15d43a0a-eb4c-4910-aa3e-c21ac3575730 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0