On Mon, 25 May 2026 12:41:30 +0100 Chris Green <[email protected]> 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. > In case it helps anyone else in future, the same applies if a remote samba share is mounted by fstab, the share will not be available during boot, so it must be marked in fstab as 'not required for boot', for which I use the 'noauto' and 'x-systemd.automount' options. Yes, it caught me out when I switched to systemd, many years ago, and the computer became unbootable. -- Joe
