[Bug 610869] Re: mountall ignores nofail mount option

[Jamin W. Collins]

I'm looking to do the exact same thing as the original reporter.  I have
some partitions on a secondary drive that is not always connected to my
system.  If the secondary drive is present at boot I would like the
partitions mounted, if it is not, I would like the system to continue
without any notice or prompting.  Like the original reporter, I first
tried the nofail option, which was ignored.  I then found this report.
I've tried the timeout option but it too appears to be ignored and
receive the following prompt for each partition:

The disk drive for $path is not ready yet or not present.
Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.

Relevant line from fstab:

UUID=651dbe1c-234c-4cec-923c-8b05184beda2 /opt/vms        ext4
defaults,timeout=1        0       2

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Title:
  mountall ignores nofail mount option

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  mountall ignores nofail mount option. Ubuntu can not be started if
  external sas device is down, for example.

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04

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