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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tutorials/using/help_from_recovery_is_possible.txt · Last modified: 2008/07/20 19:08
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