howto avoid scanning/probing of hard disks on boot

[frimical]

hello,

I have tc2 on a USB flash key.
I'd like to use only this key and avoid scanning/probing any other storage device at boot time.
I tried to use 'nofstab' boot option but didn't succeed.
I'm using the UUID of the USBkey to limit the search.
Any hint please.

thank you

(and many other thanx for this promising distro )

[^thehatsrule^]

I suppose editing the udev rules could work.

Note: the nofstab option just prevents fstab from being created

[frimical]

I suppose editing the udev rules could work.

oops... can you help me with more hints please?

Note: the nofstab option just prevents fstab from being created

by the way, eventhough 'nofstab' is used, still the fstab file is created!!!
 

[^thehatsrule^]

In TC, udev is in /etc/udev and the rules are in there inside the rules.d directory.

by the way, eventhough 'nofstab' is used, still the fstab file is created!!!

TC's udev rules might also make one - looks like a bug.

[roberts]

A bug indeed. Thanks for reporting. I have nofstab supported in the next cut, which will be etiher 2.1rc3 or final

[frimical]

thank you for taking care of it.

I'm still lost about who's responsible of the probing/scanning of the storage devices at boot. Is the fstab's creation imply this, or the kernel will do it anyway, or the udev rules, or..? ( I didn't know much about udev rules writing/reading,  I've made a little research to understand more before coming back to you, I've come to notice that in the '/etc/.../98-tc.rules'  a rebuildfstab is done for add/remove actions on block devices - but full stop for me after this info!).

By the way, my question is related to another topic: 'howto make my unique flash key my working computer (using other computers as dummy hosts)?'  that's why I don't need to touch -at all- any other storage device on the hosts.

[roberts]

Yes 98-tc-rules.

As for pendrives, you can use the new usbinstall script found in 2.1rc2, which will setup the pendrive using UUID so that you don't run into the issue of on one machine it is sda and on another machine it would be sdb. See FAQ http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#pendrives

[frimical]

thank you Roberts for your quick reply.

Actually, I only use UUID or LABEL when possible. This very useful indeed. Avoids unecessary searches.

So by using UUID coupled to 'nofstab' this will avoid -touching- any other hardisk on the machine?