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   Carlos E.R. to David W. Hodgins   
   Re: Installing Linus With Separate OS/Da   
   14 May 24 15:20:11   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-05-14 15:02, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   > On Tue, 14 May 2024 08:37:36 -0400, Carlos E.R.   
   >  wrote:   
   >> openSUSE, back at the time when systemd was not a thing, would not boot   
   >> if one of the disks was missing. At best, it would boot in rescue mode.   
   >>   
   >> Pretty much the same as today with systemd.   
   >   
   > With systemd, it's easy to fix. Let it know which drives are optional   
   > at boot by adding the option "nofail" to the fstab entries for those   
   > drives.   
   >   
   > I think it's better to drop to a rescue shell at boot if something   
   > critical is not available rather then having it not mount and   
   > possibly having things written to the underlying file system.   
      
   Absolutely.   
      
   To me, not mounting /home is critical.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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