Re: Inhibit auto-attach of scsi disks ?

Scott Merritt
2002-10-02T01:49:37Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> You can do all those things while it is attached as a disk device.

Yes - my concerns are perhaps more "artistic" (and possibly misguided). If I am mounting a disk for low level maintenance, it may not have a valid partition table and I may not appreciate the Syslog warnings related to the partition table. Furthermore, all though I haven't investigated, it seems like it might be tricky to determine that I have altered the partition table and that /dev/sdb6 is no longer a valid partition. To me, it just seemed that giving the user/administrator some way to control/inhibit the auto-attachment would be a "cleaner" solution to the problem - but that's just one man's opinion ... :)

Regards, Scott.