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

On Tue 26 May 2026 at 10:08:15 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 25/05/2026 9:49 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > (To be fair,   man fstab   does contain a disclaimer:
> > 
> >     "This document describes handling of fstab by util-linux
> >      and libmount. For systemd, read systemd documentation.
> >      There are slight differences."
> > 
> > but no references.)
> 
> <https://manpages.debian.org/systemd.mount#FSTAB>
> 
> Sorry, I am not going to ask util-linux developers to add a link (as
> the manpage or to its variant hosted at the systemd web site).
> 
> P.S. At to autofs, there is systemd.automount(5).

"No references" was not intended as a criticism of man fstab. In fact,
the aside (the only part of the post you quoted) was to credit the man
page for at least /mentioning/ systemd, which the fstab wiki fails to
do at the present time. (Its timestamp is 2024-01-21 19:29:15)

Cheers,
David.