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   David W. Hodgins to bad sector   
   Re: Installing Linus With Separate OS/Da   
   14 May 24 15:44:35   
   
   From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Tue, 14 May 2024 11:46:24 -0400, bad sector  wrote:   
   > Every case is different, I have fstab mount a data drive hosting MY home   
   > and MY data but with nofail because if that drive is not on-line then I   
   > just log in as another one of my user ids whose home is on the root   
   > drive. Ditto for swap, the boot could fail without 'nofail' which is   
   > rather harsh in my opinion when all you need is an interim swap file   
   > under /.  If this is a non issue without systemd that's just great, I   
   > came across it with OpenSuse Tumbleweed which does use it.   
      
   Ever encountered a case where someone ran a backup (as root) but didn't notice   
   that the destination file system had failed to mount?   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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