From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   > On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:58:47 -0400, Adam  wrote:   
   >>>> Since some other distro's root partition isn't critical, some just   
   >>>> skip over it, but others demand I fix fstab before they'll boot.   
   >   
   > For the distributions using systemd, you can add the option nofail, to   
   > all of the fstab entries that are not critical for that distribution.   
   >   
   > If the entry has the nofail option, the init script used in dracut   
   > will not drop to a rescue shell, if that filesystem can't be found.   
   >   
   > It's described in "man mount", on those systems that support it.   
      
   Thanks, Dave!  I see Mandriva 2011.0 has it.  Some, but not all, of the   
   distros on my test system use systemd.  'mount' has so many options   
   that, to get things up quickly, I just started with 'defaults' for   
   everything, figuring I could tweak things later.  I did a little of that   
   yesterday on my main system, changing "defaults" in fstab to just   
   "uid=adam" so that unprivileged user 'adam' could write to vfat partitions.   
      
   Also, thanks for solving another issue I had before I even mentioned it.   
     I wondered why 'apropos' returned almost nothing, then a web search   
   found your bug report and patch file for 'makewhatis'.  Shouldn't that   
   have been incorporated into the updates available?   
      
   Adam   
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