From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 20 15:27:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC191065676 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 15:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from justin@bigblind.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F297E8FC25 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 15:27:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from justin@bigblind.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so195971rvb.43 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: justin@bigblind.com Received: by 10.140.199.16 with SMTP id w16mr597100rvf.2.1242831342108; Wed, 20 May 2009 07:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: List Poster Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:55:21 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dc974341e762eec2 Message-ID: <50f477370905200755q6384bb6fmd340c2008e84d288@mail.gmail.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Forgotten root password FAQ entry - should it mention fsck? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:27:57 -0000 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW Ran into a server with an unknown root password. Booted single-user and couldn't for the life of me get the partition to remount as rw. I was directed by someone on IRC to try fsck, and to my surprise the filesystem was in an inconsistent state. The surprise was because I had done a clean shutdown with CTRL-ALT-DEL. Anyway, I think it might be a good idea to include an fsck of / in the FAQ entry.