[EdLUG] Trouble on Startup

[Gábor Majoros]

For those lines might want to include"nofail" as an SD card plugged into
your system isn't exactly 100% reliable.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/fstab.5.html

Depending on what is going on an un-mountable drive could fail your boot
process.

Kind regards,


On Thu, 25 Jun 2020, 11:43 Jeremy Nicoll, <jn.ml.elx.813 at letterboxes.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020, at 11:30, Andrew Ramage wrote:
> > Added to fstab:
>
> I /hope/ you kept a copy of the previous version of the fstab.
>
> I don't know how tolerant linux is of any error in that file, but
> I'd expect not very.  Possibly you introduced an error.
>
> Did you put your new lines at the start, or after anything else
> that was in there, or in the middle?
>
> (Maybe linux processes lines one at a time, so the place to
> add new ones would be after the others?  But maybe not; I
> do not know.)
>
>
> You might want to read through the suggestions at:
>
>
> https://serverfault.com/questions/174181/how-do-you-validate-fstab-without-rebooting
>
>
>
>
> > On 25/06/2020 11:21, Jermy Nicoll wrote:
>
> How did that line, which should have been added by your
> mail client, manage to mis-spell my name?
>
>
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