On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
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> Jessie was the first Debian version to use systemd by default as
> the init. Perhaps, something was installed as a systemd dependency that
> wouldn't have been installed with the new Beowulf computer under
> sysvinit that carried forward with a dist-upgrade of Jessie to
> Beowulf. Or you installed something on the old system that wasn't
> installed on the new one, and that is doing the automounting.

Historical note.

And the first Devuan release was called Jessie because it was almost
identical to the Debian release with the same name -- it differed
primarily in that it did not use systemd as an init. This was the last
Debian relese that had no problems running without systemd.

-- hendrik