DRBD@.SERVICE(7)

💖 drbd@.service — DRBD@.SERVICE(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the DRBD Manual page for drbd@.service, section 7 of the manual. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're gonna talk systemd units and it's gonna be adorable.

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✨ NAME ✨

drbd@.service — the System unit that configures one specific DRBD resource, and only that one. it's giving bespoke. it's giving custom-fit. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

drbd@RESNAME.service

that's it. that's the whole vibe. RESNAME is the name of your resource and the unit gets instantiated per-resource. slay. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, do NOT confuse this with the global, unspecific drbd.service. they are not the same girl. drbd.service is the general one; drbd@.service is the one that's like "hi, I handle this specific resource." 🫶

This service unit is part of drbd@RESNAME.target, and it's the one doing the work to configure / reconfigure / unconfigure the DRBD RESNAME when you start / reload / stop it. so like:

• start → configure it ✨
• reload → reconfigure it 🔁
• stop → unconfigure it 💀

and now the part that trips people up: we want the network to be online before DRBD gets configured. because configuring DRBD on a network that isn't up yet? not the move. 🙈

So depending on what you're running, you may need to enable one of these:

systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

or

systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

one of them. pick the one that matches your network stack. periodt. 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, they're all connected, iykyk:

• drbd@.target(7)
• drbd-wait-promotable@.service(7)
• drbd-lvchange@.service(7)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

LINBIT HA Solutions GmbH — https://linbit.com 🫶

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this was drbd-utils, dated 2026-08-15, from the DRBD@.SERVICE(7) era of your life. go enable that wait-online service and live your best networked life, bestie 💜🧚✨