FSCK Maintenance - no root password

[Sanjay Chakraborty]

  Are you unmounting the filesystem? Does not matter raid1 or 0 or 5.
do cat on /etc/fstab find and unmount the filesystem /dev/mdx with
/dev/sdx. run fsck -y /dev/sdx..


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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Regards.
Sanjay Chakraborty