So the /etc/fstab file on your root volume looked like this LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 defaults 0 0 /dev/xvdf /mnt/backups auto defaults,comment=cloudconfig 0 2 by mistake you deleted the ebs volume that you had mounted on /mnt/backups (or whatever folder) and you restarted your ubuntu instance not knowing that if the /etc/fstab would break it would […]
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