System enters emergency mode when restarting a mount unit.
Issue
- When restarting a mount unit using
systemctl restart <mountpoint>.mountcommand, the system enters Emergency target due to failure oflocal-fs.target. - The issue happens when having some unrelated mount point having a symlink component in its path.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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