I have a specific issue with mounting harddrives:
When using fstab to automount on boot, my system will crash on boot in some instances because the system fails to scan and fix a harddrive automatically. This is unsuitable, as I do not have physical access to the system in order to manage recovery mode and scan/fix the affected harddrive (for example after electricity outage). Additionally other important services will not be running in this case.The issue seems to be caused by automatic mount/scan/repair of the harddrive fails. Likely due to not enough system memory for checking through 200 TB of storage.
I have tried plenty of things such as nofail,errors=continue, setting the harddrives into sequential scanning/fixing mode (pass 2) and mounting the harddrives read-only. After more than 6 months of unsuccessful attempts with troubleshooting advice of the ubuntu forums and plenty of questions in askubuntu on how mount works, I decide to replicate my working manual process rather than using fstab to automount on boot.
For this reason, I set the options in fstab to noauto. This will cause the system to not mount my archive drives on startup. But also sudo mount -a won't do with that switch.Mounting the harddrives manually after system boot with 'sudo mount /mnt/mydrive1' will work and the system will not crash on mounting failure.That's why I thought ls /mnt/ | sudo mount might do but it does not.How would I proceed with mounting all harddrives in /mnt/ folder?