Recently I needed to fsck my /home partition to get the kernel to boot. No problem, as I was unable to boot from the LiveCD and umount the partition.
But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use.
In days gone by, there was a rescue mode on the Fedora install disk. No more, it seems.
Is there a solution for this?
Thanks.
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:15:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use.
I don't see any root mounted when I boot a live cd image. I suppose it mounts it when you are installing, but if you are just running the live image, you have to mount things yourself (at least I always do).
On 2020-08-15 06:15, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use.
Yes, but that one isn't your system's root. It is the squashfs located on the LiveCD.
So, if you are using stand-alone partitions you can fsck as you normally do using the device name.
If you are using lvm then you need to do a bit more.
The output from "lsblk" will give you more information when booted to the LiveCD.
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:38:41 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 2020-08-15 06:15, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use.
Yes, but that one isn't your system's root. It is the squashfs located on the LiveCD.
So, if you are using stand-alone partitions you can fsck as you normally do using the device name.
If you are using lvm then you need to do a bit more.
The output from "lsblk" will give you more information when booted to the LiveCD.
Thanks. I could not find any squashfs, ut that's probably just tired eyes.
It appears that the answers to my questions are to be found in the Install doc. Ctrl+alt+f2
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