LPI Linux Certification/Creating Recovery Disks

Detailed Objective

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Description:
Candidates should be able to create bootdisks for system entrance and recovery disks for system repair.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Filesystem configuration files
  • INIT configuration files
  • Any standard editor
  • Familiarity with the location and contents of the LDP Bootdisk-HOWTO
  • Tools to manipulate the MBR
  • Tools and utilities to copy and mount filesystems
  • GRUB
  • LILO
  • Loop devices
  • Making CD or USB storage devices bootable

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • /etc/fstab
  • /etc/inittab
  • /usr/sbin/rdev
  • /bin/cat
  • /bin/mount (includes -o loop switch)
  • /sbin/lilo
  • /bin/dd
  • /sbin/mke2fs
  • /usr/sbin/chroot