Joe(theWordy)Philbrook said: [snip] > Apparently because it's existing filesystem was detected and it was > automatically mounted for me on /mnt/cdrom1 even though my fstab says > noauto (do I so badly miss-remember the purpose of noauto?) Yes, you badly miss-remember the purpose of noauto... $ man fstab [...] "Common for all types of file system are the options ??noauto?? (do not mount when "mount -a" is given, e.g., at boot time)..." -- William Hooper