[systemd-devel] Suppressing automounting

[Thomas Suckow]

On 08/20/2014 06:46 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
>> From: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
>
>> Note that a concept of "mount at boot if it is there, otherwise don't"
>> cannot work.
>
> It worked until a week or two ago.  I want it back.
>
> I'm sure you're right that in the abstract, it cannot be made to
> work.  But that isn't the problem I'm facing.
>

It seems that a workaround could be to not put the volume in fstab and add a unit to the startup that would mount it if present. If you wanted to mount it later, you could manually start the unit again.

Regards,
Thomas