Re: fsck root file system
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:33:21PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2003 06:12, Joseph Barillari wrote:
> > 1. Boot single-user (appending "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel
> > commandline accomplishes this handily)
>
> Alternatively you can go there without actually rebooting. Just "telinit 1"
> will do. Once you're in single-user, there's nothing running that'll need a
> writeable root FS anyway. You can then procceed remounting read-only, check
> the FS, remount read-write and go back to normal use by exiting the shell.
Note that booting with 'init=/bin/sh' is not the same as single user. To
boot single-user, append 'single' to the kernel command line.
Frank
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