root password recovery

[jomy abraham]

hi

the fdisk command will give u information on the hardisk. check out man fdisk for more info. 

these commands u can try

fdisk -l
 
also df -h will give the free disk space

regards
jt

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 Rajesh wrote :
>
>
>Thank you very much for your help. I have successfully changed the root
>password.
>
>On Linux is there a tool or command to find the system hardware
>configuration. "dmesg" command gave me some info about memory and cpu. How
>can I find out the hard disk information?
>
>Regards,
>Rajesh.
>
>
>Rajesh wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My previous system admin has installed Red Hat Linux Enterprise server 3.0
> > on a Sun V20z and left. We don't have the root password to access the
> > machine. How can 	I change the root password? On sun boxes we can boot
> > with CDROM to single user mode and delete the password entry in the
> > /etc/shadow file. I don't have much Linux skills. Could someone please
>tell
> > me how I can recover the root password. I don't have any boot floppy or
> > anything for that machine. Any help would be really appreciated.
>
>Bring the machine up in single user mode.  When it comes up to the "#"
>prompt, use the "passwd" command to change the password.  Then enter
>"exit" to let the machine reboot to normal mode.
>
>If you don't know how to boot in single user mode, at the blue boot
>screen, hit "CTRL-X".  At the resulting "boot:" prompt, enter
>"linux single".
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