Bug#797039: Additional informations

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Thu Aug 27 09:16:09 BST 2015


Demolins Martial [2015-08-27  9:56 +0200]:
> As you can see in my fstab, the last line is :
> 
> #Data /mnt/Data vboxsf defaults 0 0
> 
> Data exist from time to time
> /mnt/Data always exists.

So mark it as "defaults,nofail" to tell that this isn't a critical
partition.

> The behaviour with sysvinit was smarter.

I'm afraid it wasn't. It even ignored unavailable /var or /home or
other critical partitions, and thus led to any kind of weakly defined
behaviour, ranging from failing to boot later on up to data loss.

Martin

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