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Mounting hard drive gone wrong

Reddit r/homelab·u/Ovil101·about 1 month ago
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Mounting hard drive gone wrong I've been mounting a hard drive in a proxmox VM by manually mounting it using "mount" after each reboot. I decided today was the day to add it to "/etc/fstab". When I rebooted the VM I got a boot error along the lines of "failed to start systemmd fsck /dev/disk/by-uuid". I commented out the line in "/etc/fstab/", rebooted, and everything was fine. I used "sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/nas" to manually mount the drive and it worked without isse. I added the line back in and rebooted to the same error. I decided to run "fsck" to see what was going on and it said my superblock was bad, asked me if I wanted to fix it, and I said yes. After saying yes it occurred to me: why would my drive suddenly not work after adding it to "/etc/fstab", I literally just had it working...…

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