Question regarding boot and fstab

[John EH]

New to Proxmox. Just finished my 2nd installation on zimaboard 2's. I'll call them VE1 and VE2

On VE1 I installed Lyrion Music Server and added a hard drive that has nearly 5 TB of music files. The drive was external and I passed through the USB device and created a mount point. Everything worked perfect.

If you are wondering why I didn't add it as a SATA drive it is because I occasionally take it with me for quick installs on my other servers and along on camping trips.

After standing up VE2 I decided to migrate Lyrion Music Server over to it. I moved the external drive to VE2 and passed it though and did the mount point thing and it is working perfectly.

On VE1 I deleted the LXC with Lyrion.

After doing some maintenance on VE1 I did a reboot and it failed. After hoooking up a monitor I could see that it halted on the fstab entry for the no longer installed drive.

I did a simple:

nano /etc/fstab

and #'d out that entry.

I guess if I have a question here is why did the boot hang looking for a missing non-boot drive?

And yes, I know it is probably me and something I missed here. Any and all input appreciated.

 

[Onslow]

Welcome, @John EH
Exactly because of the device physically missing but included in /etc/fstab. You can say "Thank you!" to systemd overlord :-(.

One may secure oneself against this danger by using nofail option in fstab, though I wouldn't vouch for it because I've lost track of systemd inventions and incompabilities.

 

[John EH]

Welcome, @John EH
Exactly because of the device physically missing but included in /etc/fstab. You can say "Thank you!" to systemd overlord :-(.

One may secure oneself against this danger by using nofail option in fstab, though I wouldn't vouch for it because I've lost track of systemd inventions and incompabilities.

Ah......nofail.

You are a steely eyed missile man, Sir.