The 'nofail' option is documented as: do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.
The problem you're describing is not one of reporting errors, but a lack of timeout while waiting for a device to become available on boot. 'nofail' is not a correct option to use for this. mountall does support a 'timeout' option which can be set instead, which I believe is what you want. by default this gives a timeout of 30s (globally configurable as an argument to mountall). This option is not documented in the fstab manpage, which is a bug. Reassigning to the mount package for this. ** Package changed: mountall (Ubuntu) => util-linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610869 Title: mountall ignores nofail mount option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/610869/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
