Is there anyway to bypass Job dev-disk-by-uuid

[Escanor26]

Hi Everyone

Recently I follow the below link to create a usb drive for backup data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLyEeerLGA&t=314s&ab_channel=GeekOfAllTrades

My first aim is just to create a usb drive that can backup vm, so after the backup done, I could disconnect the usb drive from the machine.

However I now notice when I poweroff my proxmox machine and restart it, it will start showing "Job dev-disk-by\xuduuid ............device/start running

And If I connect my usb backup drive back to the machine, then I can start normall; If I didn't, it will boot up emergcy mode.

Is there a way I could disable this startup job dev-disk-by-uuid? Or is it meant to be in this way? I just do not want the usb always plug into the machine.

Thanks for reading. Much apperciated.

 

[leesteken]

Do you mount the drive via /etc/fstab? Adding the options noauto,x-systemd.automount might help delay the mounting until you try to use the mountpoint.
Note that Proxmox storages are checked quite often for graphs, and might not handle a missing drive very well.

 

[Escanor26]

Hi Leesteken

I did mount the drive via nano /etc/fstab. Is there a way that I could revert it to default/ original? I have accidentally removed the original line within the file

The only script I have with the /etc/fstab is
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5864081b-d680-4fc9-a039-9b4f88cb0ac4 /home/backup ext4 defaults 0

 

[Escanor26]

Update:

The issue is solved by amend the /etc/fstab file to default value as below:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

However the data saved in the drive will disappear