On Monday 01 October 2007 16:41, Jim Crilly wrote: > On 09/28/07 05:26:27PM -0500, helices wrote: > > What do you do? > > The last few times I need to rescue something I used an Ubuntu disc that I > had laying around, it doesn't include LVM but it uses a copy-on-write > unionfs so that you can install packages onto the running LiveCD. Of course > they're lost on reboot, but with a fast Internet connection that doesn't > really matter. > > I would be surprised if Knoppix didn't already have similar functionality. > > Jim.
I've seen the term before but don't understand exactly what COW means, but I think I know what you're talking about. I had a failing disk drive last Friday and had to boot my system off of a Knoppix disk to see what I could salvage from my raid-1 array. Knoppix didn't seem to include the smartmontools package but I was able to use apt-get to install it on the fly and use it to diagnose which disk was failing. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]