permissive fstab (i.e. don't fail or wait for missing disks) /etc/fstab

fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=fe679315-e5fe-48bc-992a-cf9211b0ce73 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=9e4d0d74-7393-4b33-ae50-291a7367f328 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=3fa2f520-ae39-4bef-ba0d-8197a703414d /data           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=7600fc0a-b0ec-4701-baad-2ea040db3e66 none            swap    sw              0       0
LABEL=1TB       /media/1TB/     auto    defaults,nobootwait,nofail        0 0
LABEL=2TB       /media/2TB/     auto    defaults,nobootwait,nofail        0 0
LABEL=NEW2TB    /media/NEW2TB/  auto    defaults,nobootwait,nofail        0 0