Removable HDD mounting blues... Hand me my harmonica

[Matt Graham]

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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