On 13/12/17 00:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> and Windows has this infuriating habit of >> > ignoring my command to shutdown, instead suspending to disk. As my >> > Windows partitions automount in linux, this causes the mount to fail, >> > and systemd won't boot the system. So I spend/waste half an hour trying >> > to force Windows to shut down properly!
> Can't you change this with fstab settings. I see a similar behaviour when > trying t mount NFS shares that aren't there, but it gives up trying after > 90s and gets on with booting the computer. I've tried ... Systemd and mounting anything other than local linux hard drives gives me a migraine ... Yes I *should* be able to tell it to just forget about drives it can't mount while booting. Yes I *should* be able to tell it to just forget about drives it can't access while shutting down. Yes I *should* be able to tell it to do what I want, but it seems that no matter what I tell it, it randomly refuses to boot or shut down because of a hiccup with a Windows or network mount :-( And worse, every fix for one problem simply causes a different problem! Cheers, Wol
