Comment 16 for bug 66032

If you have a filesystem mentioned in /etc/fstab, and you remove it, then of course you will have this failure.

At this point, I believe that this bug was fixed in 1.40, for people who had problems with filesystems that were getting misidentified by NTFS. There may also be some users who are sufferring from the Feisty install code grabbing all filesystems and stuffing them in /etc/fstab, and then when people pull a removable disk or some such, the system won't boot.

so at this point I think the right thing to do is just to declare this a dup of #110138, and that it has been fixed in e2fsprogs 1.40 and in Gutsy.