Are you unmounting the filesystem? Does not matter raid1 or 0 or 5. do cat on /etc/fstab find and unmount the filesystem /dev/mdx with /dev/sdx. run fsck -y /dev/sdx.. On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My file server locked up and I had to reboot it, when it came up its stuck >> in the FSCK maintenance. Is there a way that I can run this without a >> root >> password or reset the password? The file system is an ext3 in a raid 5 >> configuration. > > I would be very cautious about interrupting an fsck. If you reboot your > machine and press a key to bring up the grub menu, then type 'e' to edit > that kernel entry, move to the kernel line, hit 'a' to append .. place an > 's' at the end of the line and hit enter and then 'b' to boot you will boot > without the root password into single user mode. > > Barry > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Regards. Sanjay Chakraborty -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
