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Re: I forgot the root password, can not maintain my machine.



> make sure to remount it with option ro (instead of rw) before you exit
> the shell or restart the machine!

That is not needed.  Just reboot normally (which sync's the buffer
cache to disk and marks the disks clean).  The readonly flag is only
used at boot time so that fsck can check the disk and be assured that
nothing else is changing the filesystem as it is doing that operation.

Bob

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