Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > It was a drive used for hourly 'snapshot' backups so needed to be mounted normally. I think the nofail mount option would fulfil what I need though.
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