I tried to cancel this article as soon as I noticed I posted it to the fedora group by mistake (which was within 1 minute of posting it). Sorry it got posted here. Chris Jones wrote: > Ralph Alvy wrote: >> Is it possible to change the way Kubuntu treats fstab? Here are my >> concerns: >> >> 1. I don't like that Kubuntu attempts to fsck every visible patition on >> bootup. I only want it to fsck the root partition. I do not have separate >> partitions for various aspects of this installation, like usr or home, >> etc., but I find Kubuntu also wants to fsck my fat partitions, etc., on >> bootup. I'd like to stop that. >> >> 2. I simply can't stand Kubuntu's rewriting of my fstab on bootup, >> dynamically creating labelled entries. I want total control over fstab, >> using traditional entries like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc., along with my >> own hard-coded mount points. >> > > Might I suggest a Kubuntu mailing list would be more useful ;) > > Chris >