On 22/02/2020 08.24, Per Jessen wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
To be fair, the current usual? environment of a single desktop different considerably from a typical? server. If there's a desktop, then what the (a?) user typically wants is for the desktop to come up and then perhaps ask questions about what do you want to do about this missing filesystem or whatever other resource is missing. On a server, I might want it to stop and bleat "something's wrong", yes.
Yes, that is a good point - I do tend to think mostly in terms of servers.
Many linux machines are also used as servers. Linux is really a server operating system, multiuser and multitasking. If I use postfix, that's clearly server software. A plain user simply doesn't make use of all the features.
I have never used the "nofail" option, but it sounds (man systemd.mount) like that is what you need in such a situation.
"nofail" has caveats. For instance, if I issue command mount: Telcontar:~ # mount -v /mnt/Ext/Old_D Telcontar:~ # Yet it failed: Telcontar:~ # l /mnt/Ext/Old_D total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 2015 ./ drwxrwxr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 21 2018 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 15 2015 not_mounted Telcontar:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)