[Discuss] Running things from initramfs

[darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)]

On 3/5/21 9:07 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Here's a messy problem.  I suspect the answer is simple, but obscure:
> 
> I have an Oracle Linux (a Red Hat derivative) computer and I'd like to
> run "xfs_repair /dev/mapper/ol-root".  The problem of course
> is that partition is the root partition and xfs_repair can't operate
> on a partition that's mounted.  If I could boot off a CD, it would be
> simple, but since this computer is remote, that's hard to do.

Any chance you could get a KVM hooked up to the machine and then admin 
it remotely through the KVM?

DR