Re: Does a bad /etc/fstab entry of a 'spare' drive prevent system booting?

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.