Looks like subj. Have a KVM machine with jessie assembled via debootstrap. Fstab states
/dev/vda2 / ext4 rw 0 0 The partition labeled vda2 is listed in grub.cfg as the root partition by its uuid.(via update-grub) Added a disk to have swap on it. Booted normally, despite the fact, that the new swap-disk was automatically labeled as vda and the disk with root is as vdb: # mount | grep ' / ' /dev/vdb2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) No errors or warnings in dmesg. So, systemd mounted root partition, whitout looking into fstab. I don't have much experience in systemd, and now wonder how this "smart" mount works. ------------ Ivan Boro cc, please.