<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">I'm trying to understand what a system is timing out waiting for a device in /etc/fstab when a simple "mount -av" will succeed.</span><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">To reach systemd, initramfs has already mounted the device as the base layer to an overlay mount used as the root file system, so it's definitely ready to use in the Linux kernel. In /etc/fstab, fsck is set to 0.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">What condition does systemd wait for that could be timing out on a device that's already mounted?</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div>