[TriLUG] Maintenance of a systemd machine

[Keith Merryman via TriLUG]

Brian,

Haha yeah, I plan on just staying inside for a few days and waiting
for all that white to go away.

Have you thought of popping in a livecd (or liveusb) and doing any
maintenance you need from there?

Keith

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I hope that everybody is having a FUN snow ( ?? ) day.  Here, SouthWest
> of Raleigh in Apex, it was mostly ice with a dusting of snow on top, but
> I hear that others had more of the white stuff.
>
>
>
>
> In any case, I have a Debian SystemD machine where I need to run fsck on
> various filesystems, such as /var and /usr.
>
> Unfortunately, with a normally-running system, that is impossible, since
> those filesystems, and others, are mounted and in use.
>
> Even re-booting and choosing Recovery Mode gets me into a fully-mounted
> running system.
>
> Any suggestions for getting the system "almost" shut down so that I can
> run fsck on critical systems?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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