<div dir="auto">For those lines might want to include"nofail" as an SD card plugged into your system isn't exactly 100% reliable.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/fstab.5.html">https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/fstab.5.html</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Depending on what is going on an un-mountable drive could fail your boot process.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 25 Jun 2020, 11:43 Jeremy Nicoll, <<a href="mailto:jn.ml.elx.813@letterboxes.org">jn.ml.elx.813@letterboxes.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 25 Jun 2020, at 11:30, Andrew Ramage wrote:<br>
> Added to fstab:<br>
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I /hope/ you kept a copy of the previous version of the fstab.<br>
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I don't know how tolerant linux is of any error in that file, but<br>
I'd expect not very. Possibly you introduced an error.<br>
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Did you put your new lines at the start, or after anything else<br>
that was in there, or in the middle?<br>
<br>
(Maybe linux processes lines one at a time, so the place to <br>
add new ones would be after the others? But maybe not; I<br>
do not know.)<br>
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You might want to read through the suggestions at:<br>
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<a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/174181/how-do-you-validate-fstab-without-rebooting" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://serverfault.com/questions/174181/how-do-you-validate-fstab-without-rebooting</a><br>
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> On 25/06/2020 11:21, Jermy Nicoll wrote:<br>
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How did that line, which should have been added by your <br>
mail client, manage to mis-spell my name?<br>
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