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+====== Avoiding boot failure due to missing drive ======
+As a huge e-hoarder that I am, I do happen to have multiple drives inside my computer. One of them locks up the POST process, forcing me to disconnect it and then hot plugging it later (figures!). Also, sometimes I do swap a drive for another and forget to reconnect the old one. As all my internal drivers are listed on ''fstab'', the boot obviously locks if I do not use an specific flag: ''nofail''.
+There are other options, though. You may want to specify options for your device, but do not want it to automount at the boot, so you give ''noauto'' a try.
+===== Reference =====
+https://askubuntu.com/questions/14365/mount-an-external-drive-at-boot-time-only-if-it-is-plugged-in

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