Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:55:21 -0500 From: List Poster <listposter@gmail.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Forgotten root password FAQ entry - should it mention fsck? Message-ID: <50f477370905200755q6384bb6fmd340c2008e84d288@mail.gmail.com>
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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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