Re: [Xen-users] resetting lost root password on a xen guest

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Timm wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Liam Kirsher wrote:
>
> > Steven, why do you write "being sure to fsck it afterwards" ? Is that
> > important?
> I don't have much experience with Xen but I did see an
> error like you described below, and after making it a point
> to fsck domU file systems after I unmounted them from dom0
> I haven't seen the problem again.
>
> Steve Timm
It's a belt and suspenders tactic from the older days of filesystems, 
when fsck was part of every reboot and when booting form CD didn't 
exist. It can't hurt, and it can help prevent a really laborious fsck at 
boot time when no one is around to type the root password at the console.
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