any sugestion about starter bk usb for use in energency of fails in OS in linux by jazei | tildeverse BBJ

>0 jazei @ 2023/07/25 20:02

Hi. any suge about a starter usb for crash in Os. what I need to have in it to solve crashes in Linux Os.
thank you and regards

>1 ultrachip @ 2023/07/28 22:31

>>OP

I personally like using Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net) - It lets you copy raw ISO's to a partition on your USB drive, and then when you boot to the drive whatever ISOs are on there show up as options on the GRUB menu.

I keep up-to-date generic ISOs of every major distribution I support, as well as the ISOs for a few specialist distros like Kali. 

As for recovering from a corrupted OS install - I don't carry any special recovery tools or things of that nature because my policy is almost always "just re-image it." 
My personal files are always stored on separate partitions (if not completely separate volumes) from the OS and I have post-install scripts for setting up my environment so re-imaging a machine is fairly painless.

In the event that my /home is the part that gets corrupted I just nuke it and reload a backup (usually from my NAS but I have other backups too... 3-2-1 and all that.) 

Hope this helps.

>2 fenris @ 2023/08/03 18:00

>>OP

I would use an iso image of the distribution you installed.

Some have rescue systems or something similar installed selectable at the 
boot menue.
Or the option to "boot the installed system" etc.

>3 fenris @ 2023/08/03 18:19

Oh, and I forgot the main: You can boot into a linux system and
mount your drives to save the data.