Hi. On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:49:11PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot, > >>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards. > > It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of > > a non-essential disk to make the system drop to single user on boot. > > Yup. `nofail` corresponds to the behavior that was standard > before systemd.
... in Debian. That part of systemd was inherited from Red Hat's interpretation of "proper OS booting". Reco