Arthur Dent <misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote:
>> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does
>> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present?
>> 
>> Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the 'noauto' 
>> option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in 
>> /etc/rc.local only if it's present.
>
> Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now:
> UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C                          /mnt/Backup     ntfs-3g 
> nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0
> but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me:
> mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument
> (I haven't tried rebooting yet).
>
> Any ideas?

One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid?

You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading.


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