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From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: single user mode?
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Hi,

On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:06:52 -0800 (PST)
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote:

> Is it possible to enter a single user mode
> on arm 10.1-release?
> 
> My disk, well.. the sd card, got corrupted,
> so wanted to run fsck on it, but cannot
> enter a single user mode. I ended up putting
> the sd card into a laptop and running fsck there.
> This fixed lots of panics, but is it possible
> to enter the single user mode on arm, and
> run fsck directly there?
> 
I try to minimise the impact of broken file systems by breaking them up
and leave even home on its own partition. This helped me especially on
the Raspberry a lot.

Erich