Booting with external HD missing - WAS:Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

[Ahmad Samir]

On 23 March 2014 17:34, Arthur Dent <misc.lists at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote:
> > On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does
> > > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present?
> >
> > Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the 'noauto'
> > option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in
> > /etc/rc.local only if it's present.
>
> Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now:
> UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C                          /mnt/Backup     ntfs-3g
> nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0
> but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me:
> mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument
> (I haven't tried rebooting yet).
>
>
Which is correct. The nofail option basically tells the system to go on
with the boot if that device doesn't exist at boot.


> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks again...
>
> Mark
>
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