For those curious why you may want this: consider your service relies on /somelocation Make that a mount unit in systemd (free from lines in /etc/fstab) and no

For those curious why you may want this: consider your service relies on /somelocation Make that a mount unit in systemd (free from lines in /etc/fstab) and now you can accurately lay out your service's requirement/dependency on this filesystem. I know systemd gets flack for overreach 'as an init system', but there's a reason - initialization doesn't happen in a vacuum. Services need filesystems, networks, etc to matter.