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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 24 March 2014 10:49, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 March 2014 21:39, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> Arthur Dent <misc.lists at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> > 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).
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid?
>>
>> You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading.
>>
>>
> You're right, I missed it before. There's an extra "," after rw in the
> mount options.
>
>
>

I'll need to test that again, adding "," doesn't seem to make a difference
on my box, could be something wrong with my setup or something I am not
getting correctly (sorry for the noise).


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