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cokedude
Single user mode worked
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Awesome
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Originally Posted by
cokedude
Is there a difference between single user mode, pressing ctrl+alt+f2 and logging into root, or using sudo -i? I figured pressing ctrl+alt+f2 and logging into root, or using sudo -i would have the same effect as using single user mode.
Yeah, single user mode is, well, a mode with only one user
It's like a barebones boot with only the very basic stuff loaded to get the OS going. You
can actually set more stuff to start up when you boot single-user but that's asking for trouble as the whole point of single-user mode is to be as basic as possible.
The main differences are:
* There's only the root user and only one user at a time, not multiuser at all (some OS's kind of cheat here though)
* Most filesystems don't mount, and most processes don't start, so it's easier to work on the filesystems without other stuff getting in the way.
You can exit single user mode by simply logging out (exit or ^d) and it should carry on up to multi-user. That said, I actually prefer to reboot round to multi-user instead but that may be me just being overly paranoid