Thread: Clean way to e2fsck /home?
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tvogel is offline tvogel
2011-10-11 , 15:34
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#12
At your own risk. This is risky by nature!

I have put the following fragment at the beginning of mount_home() in /etc/event.d/rcS-late:

Code:
    
    if [ -e /etc/homeless ]; then
      rm /etc/homeless 
      return 0
    fi
This allows the following: Make sure, the N900 auto-connects to your WLAN on power-up. Then "sudo gainroot" and "touch /etc/homeless" and "reboot". Next boot-up will proceed without the /home partition mounted. Boot-up works OK but the UI will look totally mixed up because graphics and fonts seem to be missing in this "mode". You will need to put in your lock code half-blind because the number-pad numbers are just rectangles. You can skip entering the SIM PIN.

Then, ssh in and fix things. Next boot-up will (shall) be with mounting /home again.

Again: Your own risk to use this.