I'm building a timemachine backup server from a Raspberry Pi and some spare hard drives I had laying around. I found some instructions that work fine, but I would also like to understand what happens.
At some point all the instructions say to edit the fstab file to mount the hard drives in boot. For example in one of the documentations it says to add the following line to the fstab file:
UUID=8c9d728a-54f3-4948-81ea-f0482c89fc73 /media/pi/TimeMachine hfsplus force,nofail,rw 0 0
Basically all instructions I found use the "force" option here. However I did not find anything about it in the manual of fstab or anywhere else on the web.
Can anybody tell me what the "force" option does here?