System recovery with Knoppix

What to do when good disks go bad

Carla Schroder (dworks@bratgrrl.com), Consultant, Tux Computing

Carla Schroder is a freelance PC tamer and author, administering Linux and Windows systems for small businesses and writing how-tos for real people. Carla discovered computers and high-tech around 1994, and is living proof that self-taught middle-aged persons make fine computer gurus. Watch for her upcoming O'Reilly book, The Linux Cookbook.

Summary:  This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line.

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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html

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