On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM ToddAndMargo via users <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/15/26 04:27, Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 03:55 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Well, the simplistic approach to recreating the same thing over and > > over, is to "dd" the entire drive (when it was in a working condition) > > to a file, and "dd" that file back to the drive. It's essentially a > > bitdump of everything, rather than handling individual things. > > The drive is 256GB. I do not have room. I use to do the dd thing > when I was using smaller drives.
You could use the appropriate dump/restore utility for the file system(s) (i.e. dump, xfsdump, etc.) - that would only backup/restore the data. You *might* only need to backup the boot-related areas - /boot and /boot/efi (or if not using UEFI do a dd of the blocks before the first partition to save the boot loader). It depends on what exactly is getting modified. For a rebuild/reinstall you could create a kickstart file to re-install the OS and then run a script to tweak things post-install. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
