FSCK Maintenance - no root password

[Barry Brimer]

I don't use software RAID, but I would probably want to do this in rescue 
mode off of disc 1.  What RAID level are you using?

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jason Brown wrote:

> When I tried booting it into single user mode the server would still go to
> maintenance mode.  I was able to get at it another way by  passing
> "init=/bin/bash" which got me to a command prompt.  Then remounted the drive
> with rw since it was in ro mode, and then changed the password.  Now I have
> it in maintenance mode again, I just need to figure out how to do an fsck on
> a raid system.  When I try fsck /dev/md0 I got a bad super block error and
> to run e2fsck -b 8192 which gives me the same error message.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>
>> My file server locked up and I had to reboot it, when it came up its stuck
>>> in the FSCK maintenance.  Is there a way that I can run this without a
>>> root
>>> password or reset the password?  The file system is an ext3 in a raid 5
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>
>> I would be very cautious about interrupting an fsck.  If you reboot your
>> machine and press a key to bring up the grub menu, then type 'e' to edit
>> that kernel entry, move to the kernel line, hit 'a' to append .. place an
>> 's' at the end of the line and hit enter and then 'b' to boot you will boot
>> without the root password into single user mode.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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