Re: e2fsck w/out boot?
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: > Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root
: > read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition?
:
: The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have entered
: single mode BEFORE trying that! I guess it's just one typical case of the famous
: 'DOS/Win former user syndome'... ;-)
:
: BTW... how do I get into single user mode? ;-?
`shutdown now' as root should do it! `shutdown -h now' halts the
machine, and `shutdown -r now' reboots it. Note that you can change
"now" to a time and do scheduled shutdowns ... full details in `man
shutdown', of course :)
Good luck,
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