fsck at boot, skip a disk ?

[Robert Nichols]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mathew Snyder wrote:
> 
>>I believe the "1" referred to is another way of saying "single" which
>>will do what is being described.
>>
> 
> I think you had better try it. On my FC5 system, booting into the
> single user mode (run level 1) still mounts all local file systems.
> So if you need to edit /etc/fstab to get the system to boot, you are
> not going to be able to do it. This is because when booting to any
> run level, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is run before the run level specific
> stuff, and this is where the local file systems are mounted.

What you need is "emergency" mode.  That will give you a shell, and
with the root filesystem mounted read-only.  Nothing else besides
the pseudo-fileystems (/dev, /sys, /proc) will be mounted.  In
order to edit /etc/fstab you'll have to remount the root filesystem
read-write, and if your favorite editor resides in /usr/bin and /usr
is a separate filesystem, then you'll need to mount /usr too.

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