Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:28:49PM -0800, andmalc wrote: > Also, sorry about the wonky formatting of my posts. Posting from > Google Groups so no line wrapping and in HTML format too I suppose ): > That doesn't mean you shouldn't press the return key yourself every now and then yourself. :) -

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-19, andmalc wrote: > Also, sorry about the wonky formatting of my posts. Posting from Google > Groups so no line wrapping and in HTML format too I suppose ): > > Apparently there is a plain text mode option in the composer. -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetr

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread andmalc
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Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread andmalc
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:30:04 AM UTC-5, fran...@avalenn.eu wrote: > Would the "nofail" fstab mount option work for you ? > > http://lists.debian.org/546e52a1.2080...@debian.org Interesting: dropping into emergency mode when the device isn't found is new behavior under systemd. Looks

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread francois
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:30:38PM -0800, andmalc wrote: > My question is: how can I specify devices in fstab so if they can't > be found boot proceeds proceeds normally instead of halting? Would > mounting with systemd with the 'device-timeout' option as described > here be a good way? Would the

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Frank Miles (f...@u.washington.edu): > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:50:01 +0100, andmalc wrote: > > > I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are > > specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently > > made changes to the disks that made a device name

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:20:04 AM UTC+5:30, cassiope wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:50:01 +0100, andmalc wrote: > > > I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are > > specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently > > made changes to the disks

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
andmalc writes: > I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified > in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made > changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't > notice. When I rebooted, the disk couldn't be found and boot halted

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread Frank Miles
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:50:01 +0100, andmalc wrote: > I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are > specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently > made changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't > notice. When I rebooted, the disk

Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread andmalc
I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't notice. When I rebooted, the disk couldn't be found and boot halted in rescue mode. My ques