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I've been running linux, since early Mandrake, and have not had this problem. I have a number of Drobo boxes as servers, but my daughters husband had offered to do this rebuild, Although he's been in computing admin for most of his adulthood, being a devout Windows slave, he'd never dabbled in Linux. His install, generally works fine, but the setup for external drives was something I had to do. The procedure through Mageia (and earlier) Control Centre (MCC), has never worked particularly well, and I've always done the setup manually, without problems. However, with Mageia9, they are not mounted at boot. It is a minor annoyance since manual mounting (mount -av) works fine, so not a serious problem. The particular files in /etc/fstab, are the onesfrom an earlier, running, install of Mageia7. They work under the original install, and under Mageia9. as a post boot command.

Without posting the actual entries from /etc/fstab and journalctl logs from a fresh boot no way to tell why they are not mounted at boot.

My guess: they are not marked as remote/network filesystems with the _netdev option and/or network is online too late in the boot process.