On 2/15/26 06:49, Go Canes wrote:
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.
A tar ball of /boot and the efi parturition was also
what I was thinking.
But, I have to get it booting again first.
:'(
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