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From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes:
>=20
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >>=20
> >> What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode,
> >> but you apparently want fsck -p to fail (which will put you in
> >> single-user mode)?
> >
> > fsck -p failing will drop back to fsck -y, which will fix the problem.
>=20
> Um, okay, then why can't you just reboot into single-user mode and run
> fsck -y before the filesystem is mounted?

For the reasons outlined in my initial post.

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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