[arch-general] Partition mounting in systemd [WAS: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd]

[Baho Utot]

On 08/14/2012 08:53 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, David Benfell
>> <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
>>> Does systemd not use the standard
>>> mount program and follow /etc/fstab?
>> It does. Though it does not use "mount -a", but rather mounts each fs
>> separately.
>

[putolin]

I came across another anomaly on my systemd boxes that I would like 
someone to verify if they could.  Please do this on a backup system.

I was changing some lvm partitions about that were mounted in 
/etc/fstab, actually I removed them and created two new lvm partitions 
with different names, but failed to update the fstab. Upon rebooting the 
systems failed to boot and where stuck at trying to mount the non 
existing lvm partitions.  I could not fix the systems as I could not get 
a "recovery" bash prompt.  I had to use a boot live CD to edit the fstab 
and then all was well. On all my sysvinit systems a bad mount point 
would just give me an error and continue booting.

Could some brave enterprising soul confirm this?

This created the following question: Can systemd boot a system without a 
fstab?