[TriLUG] Maintenance of a systemd machine

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Brian,

At the boot screen, can you add “init=/bin/sh” to the boot command line?  That is how I normally get into single-user mode to do fsck.




On 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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