fsck at boot, skip a disk ?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Mathew Snyder wrote:
> I believe the "1" referred to is another way of saying "single" which
> will do what is being described.
> 
I think you had better try it. On my FC5 system, booting into the
single user mode (run level 1) still mounts all local file systems.
So if you need to edit /etc/fstab to get the system to boot, you are
not going to be able to do it. This is because when booting to any
run level, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is run before the run level specific
stuff, and this is where the local file systems are mounted. There
is even a note in rc.sysinit that says:

Contrary to standard usage, filesystems are NOT unmounted in single
user mode.

Mikkel
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