Hi, On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 12:41:30PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > However it does seem a bit 'unfriendly' to make the system totally > unbootable if a drive that isn't needed at all for the boot process > can't be mounted by fstab.
You've already received answers about why you can't log in, and how to boot into single user mode. I just wanted to add that if there is a filesystem that is not essential for system operation, you can inform systemd of this by adding "nofail" to the mount options in fstab. This is documented in systemd.mount(5). You can also use the regular mount options "noauto" to not mount the thing every time, requiring a manual mount. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
