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System Recovery with Knoppix

Posted by michael on from the handy-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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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  1. Security?!?!? by spotmonk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just what I needed... someone drawing attention to the fact that they can access all my porn, I mean sensitive files, on my computer with just a knoppix disk but in all seriousness, how safe is it to be able to access anything just by putting a disk in the drive?

  2. coincidence by splint3r · · Score: 1, Troll

    Heh, funny this story should come up now, I used Knoppix to recover customer web sites from a couple of disks from a compramised machine just the other day. Saved my life (coz if Knoppix wasn't there then I'd have to use a boot disk with vi on it, and I'd rather die, than use vi).

  3. Re:Yawn - where is the innovation? by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but don't tell anyone here that. They might mod you troll/flaimbait for it ;)