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Description: Right now we teach our students that practically every issue with fstab will lead to an emergency shell.

With servers having multiple mount points local and remote, it is quite easy to run into this problem ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213778 )

And maybe we should tell our students about the "nofail" option in the fstab options field.

If we specify "defaults,nofail" in an entry in fstab, it won't mount it, but the system will boot. I believe this is a very normal and desired behaviour for many customers. Let's say we have 150 mount points from several NFS Servers, if one of them does not respond at the minute we reboot our system, it won't boot.

And....if they prefer this behaviour, they should be aware, that there will not be any messages, so every time they boot, they should execute "journalctl -xb -p3" to find out if there were any kind of serious problem.