[CentOS] Any alternative to Single User Mode

Animesh Pandey wrote:
> Then I read about an Emergency mode which is even lower level to that
> of Single User mode. I was able to log in and see the files that I
> created/modified as root. I could not see any file/folder that
> related the local user "cloudera" on which I used to work.

Just a wild guess...

Could it be possible that your /home, which contains all the files
of the "cloudera" user, is located on a separate file system that
does not automatically get mounted in emergency mode? That would
at least explain why those files appear to be missing.

Patrick