Emergency mode after a storage change is usually one line in fstab. What interviewers score is your order of operations and whether your recovery preserves data-mount dependencies.
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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. What interviewers score is your order of operations and whether your recovery preserves data-mount dependencies.
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