USB mountpoints jumping around

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 at 09:35, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> After some googling I found a reference to the noauto flag one could use in
> fstab, for  storage you do not want to mount at boot.
> So, I replaced the normal defaults flag with noauto and rebooted the laptop
> without the 5 TB drive, and I still get the fsck thing mentioned above.

Can you show us the fstab line please.

In fact perhaps you want nofail rather than noauto, so that it will
try to mount it but not fail if it is not there.  That does not
explain why noauto does not work.  Are you sure you have not got
another line for it in fstab?

Colin