<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><br>Yes, thanks. After a bit of poking I found the references to putting "single" on the end of the grub line and getting exactly what I needed. Thanks. <br></div>
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Subject: Re: [ale] on topic: Centos 6 out of /root space, boots but no<br>
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From: Scott McBrien <<a href="mailto:smcbrien@gmail.com">smcbrien@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, September 10, 2015 1:11 pm<br>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
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<div></div><div>What about booting to single user mode?</div><div><br></div><div>If that still won't work, you can put in your install media and boot to rescue mode, your / will be mounted at /mnt/sysimage.</div><div><br></div><div>-Scott</div><div><br>On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:47 PM, <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: blue 2px solid; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><br><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, darn. Our trusty Centos 6 server ran out of space in /. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It's natural and logical reaction was to not notify anybody, and honk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">My wife saw a message on her NX window, but we couldn't get a shell to SU. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Rebooting proceeds normally, and after about 2 minutes we just get a blank screen. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Short of building a Knoppix CD or some other means of booting off of CD, is there a boot sequence that will just give me a root shell so I can clean out the / filesystem? This is a pretty stock Centos 6 install with mirrored drives. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Neal Rhodes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">MNOP Ltd</span></div><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"><div id="wmQuoteWrapper"> </div> </blockquote></span> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: blue 2px solid; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></blockquote><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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