drbd-graceful-shutdown.service - Man Page

Attempt graceful shut down of DRBD resource on system shut down

Synopsis

drbd-graceful-shutdown​.service

Description

This service is the attempt to shutdown DRBD resources while they still have a chance to communicate this with their peers so they can "gracefully" leave the DRBD replication​.

For this reason, this unit is ordered after network-online​.target: on system shut down, this service will be stopped before the network is torn down​.

Resources that are explicitly managed by other systemd services should be stopped there​. So this is also ordered before resource-agents-deps​.target and drbd​.service and the per-resource drbd@​.service templates, which makes it be stopped only after those are stopped​.

If you have some other foo​.service that starts and stops DRBD resources, you should add a drop-in /etc/systemd/system/drbd-graceful-shutdown​.service​.d/foo​.conf

[Unit]
Before=foo​.service

(Or the inverse, add an After=drbd-graceful-shutdown​.service to your foo​.service)​.

If you for some reason want to opt-out of this service, you can still systemctl mask it​.

Authors

LINBIT HA Solutions GmbH https://linbit.com

Info

2026-08-15 drbd-utils DRBD Manual