When important filesystems (like /usr and /home) fail to mount, Ubuntu currently tries to carry on regardless, leading to confusing higher-level errors. Ubuntu's /etc/fstab uses UUID=blah to make failed mounts less likely, but it also means that it's impossible to mount anything when udev fails to start.
I think that when /etc/init.d/mountall notices `mount -a` return an
error condition, it should provide a simple interface to manually mount
drives, and warn the user to fix the problem once booting is successful.
I've attached a (bash-specific, poorly commented and totally undebugged)
shell script to give a rough idea of what I'd like to see.
Does this seem plausible?
- Andrew
mount-failure-hand-holding.sh
Description: application/shellscript
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