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Subject: Re: maintenance mode
To: iwanleo@bambam.vision.net.id (Iwan Leonardus)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:20:14 +0200 (MET DST)
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Iwan Leonardus writes:
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> Hello, I need help...
>
> How to enter maintenace mode (single user mode)?

Either boot single-user (-s flag), or use shutdown:

# shutdown now

Without any options, it is supposed to take you into single user mode,
but you may find you still have to unmount file systems and stop some
daemons.

> I think i have missing file, I want to check with fsck

You can run fsck in multi-user mode, but you may get some spurious
error messages.

Greg