November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Content preview from Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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OS data corruption
This failure occurs when no physical damage has occurred but critical files of the OS itself become corrupted, or some portion of the OS is accidentally deleted. In some cases, this can also occur due to an incomplete upgrade or due to the presence of bugs in the update or patch. File partition corruption can also cause severe unrecoverable OS data corruption. In most cases when there is a filesystem error or any data corruption, the OS boot process will drop in the maintenance shell or we can manually enter into Proxmox rescue mode by rebooting the node from Proxmox ISO CDROM and selecting Rescue Boot, as shown in the following screenshot: