Access node in recovery mode

Select Actions for the respective node where you need to enable recovery mode from the Manage Nodes option.

Firstly, you need to power off the node to enable recovery mode.

Click on Power Off action

Now, select Enable Recovery Mode option from Actions to enable it.

Click on OK button

You can see the node state in recovery mode in progress

Once the recovery mode is enabled, you will see the node state as Recovery Mode Enabled.

Once recovery node is enabled, start the node to boot into recovery mode.

Once the node comes to a running state, click on Access Console.

Navigate to Troubleshooting option using arrows and then press Enter.

Now navigate to Rescue a Rocky Linux system using arrows and then press Enter to boot into recovery mode.

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If the rescue disk is enabled and left for 30 seconds, you need to quit installation as per the below screenshot.

After quitting, the rescue image will boot into recovery mode.

Then choose option 1 to mount the disk, enter 1 on the below screen to continue as shown in the picture below.

Press the enter button to get the command line in recovery mode.

Disk Space full

When the disk space is full on the server, you can check with the command:

df -Th

and can see node's disk (vda1) will be mounted on /mnt/sysroot.

If you want to remove/delete files through recovery mode, you can browse and clear the unwanted files.

Change password

If you want to change the password of the root user through recovery mode, you can mount disk (vda1) on /mnt/sysroot and change it as shown in the below screen.

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Please check if the user is changed to root@localhost. If not, use sudo -i; it is mandatory to change the root password.

To exit/unmount the disk (vda1) from /mnt/sysimage, run the exit command as shown in the screenshot below:

Once the disk is cleared, the password reset is done, or other operations are performed through recovery mode, you can power off the node again.

Then, disable the recovery mode option through Disable Recovery Mode from Actions.

Finally, you can power ON the node.

You can see the node in Running state.