Re: Removable HDD mounting blues... Hand me my harmonica

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Author: Matt Graham
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Removable HDD mounting blues... Hand me my harmonica
On 2014-02-18 08:28, Wayne Davis wrote:
> I cannot get the system to NOT care when a removable drive is MISSING.
> During boot, it squawks about it and I press S for skip.
> I tried "nofail" in fstab, that is not working.
> Kubuntu 13.10
> NTFS and EXT4 drives
> Using UUID


The keyword is "noauto". Kind of like so:

LABEL=my_label /mnt/somewhere ext4 noauto 0 0

Using label instead of UUID makes the fstab easier to read. Note that
the fsck/dump fields must also be 0 for filesystems that are not
guaranteed to be present at boot time.

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