From: pinnerite@gmail.com   
      
   My main system has not been booting into Cinnamon from time to time and took   
   several slow attempts.   
   Today it was irritating. Once again I recruited ChatGPT.   
      
   I have two hard drives one ir the other of which I enable when I want  yto   
   take a backup.   
   They are in fstab of course.   
      
   Apparently when either are offline, Linux hangs around until they respond and   
   this gives rise to delays and sometimes failure to boot properly.   
      
   ChatGPT's solution was to add "nofail" in the fstab line like thisn (it should   
   be one line):   
      
   UUID=6ffa4082-d80f-4711-a7eb-538054d9440d /mnt/6ffa4082-d80f-471   
   -a7eb-538054d9440d    ext4 defaults,nofail  0  0   
      
   I thought someone might find this useful.   
      
   Have a good weekend.   
      
   Alan   
      
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   Linux Mint 22.1 kernel version 6.8.0-84-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8   
   AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda   
      
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