Linux Filesystems and Mounts Cheat Sheet/Search logs for mount failures

Review boot logs when a filesystem did not mount.

Section: fstab and Boot-Time Mounts

Search logs for mount failures

bash
bash
journalctl -b | grep -i mount
Explanation

Review boot logs when a filesystem did not mount.

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