[Cialug] fstab options

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Is there a way to set options in /etc/fstab such that if a partition is 
present at boot it will be mounted, but if it is not present there 
won't be any errors that halt the boot process? This is on Linux.

I am wondering because i have a portable USB drive and i'd like to be 
able to unmount and remove it without worrying about any hassle on 
reboot. As for why i'd be worried about rebooting a Linux box, well, 
this is on my computer at work, which has some hardware issues. So far 
it hasn't actually crashed on me but i need to reboot it about twice a 
month because the (proprietary, ATI) graphics driver wedges in such a 
way that the only effective solution is to log in remotely and reboot 
the whole machine.

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