On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do whatever to corrupt your disk so you need to run fsck in single user mode 
> at boot.

Here is what I did and was unsuccessful at creating a problem.  On my
system, /dev/sda1 contains the root '/' filesystem, so I tried this:

1) booted with a LiveCD
2) typed this in a terminal:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero count=200 bs=1 \
of=/dev/sda1 seek=50000 conv=notrunc

3) rebooted, ejecting CD
4) Ubuntu came up just fine.

I wanted to get prompted for a root password and this didn't work.
What am I missing?

Regards,
- Robert
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