Forgotten root password FAQ entry - should it mention fsck?

List Poster listposter at gmail.com
Wed May 20 15:27:57 UTC 2009


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

Ran into a server with an unknown root password.  Booted single-user and
couldn't for the life of me get the partition to remount as rw.  I was
directed by someone on IRC to try fsck, and to my surprise the filesystem
was in an inconsistent state.  The surprise was because I had done a clean
shutdown with CTRL-ALT-DEL.  Anyway, I think it might be a good idea to
include an fsck of / in the FAQ entry.



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