Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu): > I think the option is "nofail" (off-the-top-of-my-head). You know, 'noauto' would do, and is probably what Alex is looking for. (Alex, sub that for keyword 'defaults'.) > You can then also validate it in the fstab file, e.g.: > # mount target_directory And yes, always do that.