On 2012-11-01 at 14:03 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > crypttab(5) explains that "nofail" is the option you want to use: I also have an encrypted drive which might be present at boot or not, but nofail isn't working for me, or at least not as expected. I already filed a bug upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54210 André, you could comment there whether nofail is working for you or not.
