broken filesystem - give root password for maintenance

[Clochard]

I'm having this exact same problem.



Isn't this a mjor design flaw in Ubuntu's choice to randomize/obfuscate
the root password?  ext3 filesystems fsck every 30 reboots by default I
think, and if a system ever encounters an error that requires a fsck,
this most certainly isn't something that should need to be done.  It
most certainly doesn't "Just Work".



I've been an advocate of this sudo habit until now - I see this as a
major problem with the whole idea.


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Clochard