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A VM rebooted after a storage change and dropped into emergency mode. Talk me through the recovery and what you check first.

Emergency mode after a storage change is usually one line in fstab. The order of operations is what decides the outcome here, along with whether the recovery preserves data-mount dependencies rather than booting past them.

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Emergency mode after a storage change is usually one line in fstab. The order of operations is what decides the outcome here, along with whether the recovery preserves data-mount dependencies rather than booting past them.

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