On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jason Dale wrote: > Hi there : > > Question : how have you partitioned your disk ? > > If for examples' sake you set up /home as a separate filesystem , and this > is the filesystem that > has become corrupted , when you login to the system in admin mode , you > should be given > a root prompt. In such a case , you would need to make sure /home is > unmounted before > performing fsck or e2fsck. > > However , if the corruption happens on your / partition , you could have a > problem , > because you cannot perform a filesystem check on a mounted filesystem. I > myself > have not managed to find a way to force a check on the / filesystem.
In that situation, the system will boot into single user mode and you'll be able to fsck /. That's what's happening to the original poster and that's why it's prompting him for the root password. Ian _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
