Recovery Is Possible Help

There is a great help file on Kent Robotti's Recovery Is Possible floppy (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/). It tells how to do various things that might need to be done to rescue your system. This file is really a big help when you are looking for how to do something and all you have to look at just then is this little floppy.

  • How to mount filesystems and make repairs. There is a list of the filesystems supported. There are samples of how to mount and umount. He includes mounting an image using loop.
  • Using fdisk to determine the partitions on the system
  • Formating a floppy and making a filesystem on it. Making filesystmes in general, including FAT16 or FAT32.
  • Convert between ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
  • Check and repair ext2 or ext3 filesystems.
  • How to fix a corrupt superblock on a partition.
  • Show kernel boot messages.
  • Unpack various compressed formats.
  • Tar a directory with or without gzip.
  • A list of Common Linux Commands and what they do. Instructions on how to see the help for these commands.
  • How to backup a partition
  • Use of ntfresize to resize a Windows NTFS partition.
  • How to switch consoles, reboot, halt, poweroff.
  • How to reinstall GRUB or LILO.
  • How to remove GRUB/LILO.
  • Back up current MBR
  • Using chroot
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