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