[CentOS] fstab, unusual behavior of "missing UUID"

[John Austin]

On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 10:40 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote:
> I have the following as the last line of my /etc/fstab file on a 
> computer running CentOS6.4..
> 
> UUID=3b550884-8d05-41a5-a205-17b6d7269dd1 /mnt ext3 
> rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,nouser,async  0  2
> 
> The UUID refers to an ext3 partition of a removable USB drive.
> 
> If the USB drive is not plugged into the computer the computer will not 
> boot.  It seems that this is the incorrect behavior since "noauto" means 
> there is nothing to mount.
> 
> I noticed this situation since an almost identical /etc/fstab on a 
> Fedora 18 computer will boot without the USB drive being plugged in.
> 
> The reason this is important to me is that I want to plug my USB drive 
> into a running computer and then mount it with "# mount /mnt" so I can 
> do backups.
> 
> Thank you,
> Joe Hesse
> 
> 
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Add nofail option ?

John