systemd dependencies and processing /etc/fstab

The problem I wanted to solve On an embedded arm system running LUbuntu 16.04 LTS (systemd 229), I wanted to add a mount point to the /etc/fstab file, which originally was like this: # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM Empty, except for this message. Is that a bad omen or what? This is the time [...]