[SOLVED] Deleted a seperate timeshift partition, as i thought it was unused, now can't boot

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Hello,

I was trying to free space and deleted my -unused- timeshift partition yesterday (named timeshift_backup).

After using my desktop the whole day there was no problem(i even rebooted several times), but today is boots on command line informing me that the “enter_partition_name” is “clean with that much number of blocks etc.” and telling me to login as root with the choices of systemctl reboot, exit or to see the logs with journalctl -xb.

The first two choices don’t help, while when executing journalctl and going through the log, i stumbled upon some lines on mounting my disks:

steve-desktop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\"some_numbers".device: Job dev-disk-by\
steve-desktop systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device "some_numbers"

Subject: A start job for unit dev-disk-by\"some_numbers" has failed
Defined-By systemd

A start job for unit dev-disk-by\"some_numbers" has finished with a failure

The job identifier is 47 and the job result is timeout

And on the next lines

steve-desktop systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /mnt/timeshift_backup
Subject: A start job for unit mnt-timeshift_backup.mount has failed
...
The job identifier is 46 and the job result is dependency

steve-desktop systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local File Systems
Subject: A start job for unit local-fs.target has failed
Defined-By: systemd

A start job for unit local-fs.target has finished with a failure

The job identifier is 41 and the job result is dependency

And after these i have:

steve-desktop systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Job local-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
steve-desktop systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Triggering OnFailure = dependencies.
steve-desktop systemd[1]: mnt-timeshift_backup.mount : Job mnt-timeshift_backup.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'.
steve-desktop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\"some numbers".device : Job dev-disk-by\"some numbers">
steve-desktop systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.path : Deactivated sucessfully.

After these, i get some other notifications but with no failures.

Any suggestions on how to unbind this dependency of the partition?

Thank you in advance! :slight_smile:

Edit for future problem solving:

I got an idea from here and edited with nano my fstab, erased the line that mentioned that -now erased- partition of timeshift and now i booted normally!

I don’t know if i need to do something more, but it seems that everything is in order

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Hello, I seem to be having the same problem but am having trouble figuring out the steps. Could you perhaps guide me on them?

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Sure!

Login as root.
Navigate to the location of your fstab file.
Open it with the command nano fstab.
Try to find the fstab line that responds to that particular partition and erase it.
Close and save the nano fstab file.
Reboot.

You need to have a basic understanding of what’s your specific partitions identifycation, the working of nano editor, how fstab works and where you can find your fstab file though before trying to work with these. Good luck!