Definition: single user mode: a system mode created for administrative and maintenance activities demand complete control of the system. When the system is in this state whoever is logged in becomes root. This is however, a minimal system startup state. Only the root partition is mounted so only commands that reside in the root filesystem are available.
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Source: Linux Guide @FirstLinux / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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