[SOLVED] PVE stuck on Coldplug All udev devices

TheFes

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After a reboot of my Proxmox server it doesn't boot anymore.
Ater attaching a screen I noticed it got stuck on:
Code:
/dev/mapper/pve-root: clean

After some Googling it thought it might be that the root partition was full. This would be explainable because I was copying data from one of the data drives to a mounted network share, and I found it might be that this network share wasn't mounted properly.
Using a gparted live USB stick, I accessed the root partition and noticed there was data in the folder which should have been the mounted network share. I removed that folder and then rebooted, hoping this would resolve it.

Unfortunately, that didn't help.

After more Googling I found you could remove quit in the grub start screen, which shows more information.
When doing that, the booting gets stuck on

Code:
  Starting systemd-udev-load-credentials.service - Load udev Rules from Credentials...
[ 5.099265] systemd[1]: Starting systemd-udev-trigger.services - Coldplug All udev Devices...

I found some things I tried after booting Gparted again
* removed custom rules from /dev/udev/rules.d (backed them up to another folder)
* commented out nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf

That also didn't help. I'm a bit out of options now and I would really like to be able to boot this system again. If anyone can give any advice, please let me know!
 
The issue is resolved.
While freeing up the space I removed the folder I created in /mnt
However, I forgot to remove it from /etc/fstab, so during boot it tried to mount it, but couldn't as the folder was no longer there.
After removing the line from /etc/fstab it booted without issues.