FSCK Maintenance - no root password

Andrey Meganov a.meganov at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 14:27:26 UTC 2008


Are you mb runninh LVM over RAID? The fsck should be run on the mapper  
devices.
BR,
Andrey

Sent from my iPhone as I am away from office


On 13.10.2008, at 16:39, "Chet Nichols III" <chet.nichols at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I know this is a silly question, but is the md driver loaded and are  
> the md
> services running?
> Chet
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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