FSCK Maintenance - no root password

[Jason Brown]

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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