>>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot,
>>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards.
> It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of
> a non-essential disk to make the system drop to single user on boot.
Yup. `nofail` corresponds to the behavior that was standard
before systemd.
The only partitions where I don't use `nofail` are those where I forgot
to put it ;-)
Stefan