HD Install :: how do I un-automate /etc/fstab creation?

I want to put something like:

/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2

in /etc/fstab and have it not get overwritten next boot. In other words I want to edit /etc/fstab myself and keep those changes, disabling the auto-detect of partitions.

How & where?

DSL rocks BTW

For a frugal/pendrive/liveCD type install,
you could add the boot option ' home=hda6 ' at boottime..

But, it will add a user /dsl directory to it automatically,
if one doesn't already exist.

That will use the existing home you have on hda6.

For a HDInstall, you may have to play with the
knoppix autodetection config, to avoid redetecting and
rewriting fstab parameters..

There is a thread here in the forums discussing this technique..

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ke4nt

To skip fstab creation use the boot option nofstab
Where you put that depends on the install type, lilo, grub, isolinux,syslinux, etc.

original here.