Roger Bell_West  writes:

> However, my experience of systemd has been that if it tries to mount a
> networked filesystem before the network is up, it will spot the
> failure and happily hang the entire system rather than let you get in
> and fix it.

I had this even with a local drive, some drive insisted on fsck and
wouldn't mount. System halted by systemd.

Solution was to use x-systemd.automount option in fstab. Although my
NTFS partition now won't mount automatically. But then I'd say it's an
improvement and I haven't bothered looking into it.

x-systemd.automount might work for Rob's CIFS mounts too. I don't do
Windows networking much so I've never tried.

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