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[Bug 120829] Re: /dev/sda3 is mounted despite the 'noauto' option in fstab

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From: Jean <120829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 10:04:00 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 120829 <120829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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We are in 2015 and this bug seams to be still present in the  15.10
ubuntu version. I want to do a backup of my NAS on a internal hard
drive, so just mount this hard drive during the backup and then unmount
it. The issue is that it is auto mounted at boot even with the noauto
option in the fstab.

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Title:
  /dev/sda3 is mounted despite the 'noauto' option in fstab

Status in gnome-volume-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mount

  besides the Ubuntu feisty installation I have 2 other Linux-partititions formatted ext3. As they contain another system I do not want Ubuntu to touch them. So I edited /etc/fstab and added the option 'noauto' for those entries.
  Ubuntu does not respect these options and still mounts them at every boot-up.

  Example with /dev/sda3:

  1. line in fstab:
  # /dev/sda3
  UUID=72478130-3425-47ca-92e5-7270e8d3b6b2 /media/sda3     ext3    user,noauto        0       0

  2. line in 'cat /proc/mounts':
  /dev/disk/by-uuid/72478130-3425-47ca-92e5-7270e8d3b6b2 /media/sda3 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,data=ordered 0 0

  The 'noauto' option is just ignored! Linux in no way should mount 'foreign' filesystems without confirmation by the user
  also with respect to security (removable media is a different story).

  I thus placed a '#' in front of the line in fstab, now Ubuntu
  complains about 'error mounting local filesystems' on every boot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun 17 13:03:31 2007
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
  Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
  ProcCwd: /home/ingo
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  Uname: Linux pp 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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