@bajax > Why is that? It's an unnecessarily arcane way to go about it, a process left over from the days of non- plug and play, when this stuff NEEDED to be initialized at system boot or it wouldn't be able to work. Why not just do it like modern systems do-- if they find a mountable system, mount it. If you need a specific mount point for this drive, set a volume label.

You have to pick which drives you want from boot, it just offers control. If you don't need the control, just generate an fstab and it'll do the work.

Also, if you've ever worked with Windows and macOS partition management, l m a o.