https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Rescue_disk 2026-05-09T15:52:04Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.0 https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Rescue_disk&diff=32395&oldid=prev 2026-05-03T10:55:05Z

<p>use lowercase spelling</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:55, 3 May 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rescue </del>disk also known as repair disk allows to easily repair an installation that may become faulty due to a package conflict or misconfiguration. To preempt this, a wise precaution would be to prepare and maintain a rescue disk. A rescue disk provides a platform to execute commands using [[chroot]].   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rescue </ins>disk also known as repair disk allows to easily repair an installation that may become faulty due to a package conflict or misconfiguration. To preempt this, a wise precaution would be to prepare and maintain a rescue disk. A rescue disk provides a platform to execute commands using [[chroot]].   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Preparation ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Preparation ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Preparation</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:54, 3 May 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Preparation ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Preparation ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Alpine linux [[Installation#Preparing_installation_media|installation media]] could be retained for this purpose.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Alpine linux [[Installation#Preparing_installation_media|installation media]] could be retained for this purpose.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* A [[Create a Bootable Device|customizable boot device]] for Alpine Linux<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>e.g. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>USB<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-Stick/</del>CompactFlash<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/SDCard </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SSD/</del>NVMe <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">harddisk based boot device </del>with a writable filesystem <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">i.e, </del>non-iso9660 is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also </del>a very good fit for this purpose.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* A [[Create a Bootable Device|customizable boot device]] for Alpine Linux <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>e.g. USB <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stick, </ins>CompactFlash<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, SD card, SSD </ins>or NVMe<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins>with a writable filesystem <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>non-iso9660 is a very good fit for this purpose<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For additional flexibility, rescue disk could be installed on an alternative media (another SD card, USB pendrive, CD-ROM<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, etc</del>) containing either:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For additional flexibility, rescue disk could be installed on an alternative media (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">e.g. </ins>another SD card, USB pendrive, CD-ROM) containing either:</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::(a) </del>a different Alpine Linux version to your workstation's i.e. current-stable vs <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Edge </del>or vice-versa in case your current impasse is due to a temporary conflict, say, in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Edge</del>, it may not manifest in current-stable</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>a different Alpine Linux version to your workstation's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>i.e. current-stable vs <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">edge </ins>or vice-versa<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins>in case your current impasse is due to a temporary conflict, say, in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">edge</ins>, it may not manifest in current-stable</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::(b) </del>a different distribution</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>a different distribution</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This would be handy as a fallback workstation operating system to investigate the issue</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This would be handy as a fallback workstation operating system to investigate the issue<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Maintenance ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Maintenance ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Fturco https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Rescue_disk&diff=32015&oldid=prev 2026-02-05T05:16:05Z

<p>moved content from <a href="/wiki/Installation#Post-Installation" title="Installation">Installation page</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A Rescue disk also known as repair disk allows to easily repair an installation that may become faulty due to a package conflict or misconfiguration. To preempt this, a wise precaution would be to prepare and maintain a rescue disk. A rescue disk provides a platform to execute commands using [[chroot]]. <br /> <br /> == Preparation ==<br /> * Alpine linux [[Installation#Preparing_installation_media|installation media]] could be retained for this purpose. <br /> * A [[Create a Bootable Device|customizable boot device]] for Alpine Linux, e.g. a USB-Stick/CompactFlash/SDCard or SSD/NVMe harddisk based boot device with a writable filesystem i.e, non-iso9660 is also a very good fit for this purpose. <br /> <br /> For additional flexibility, rescue disk could be installed on an alternative media (another SD card, USB pendrive, CD-ROM, etc) containing either:-<br /> ::(a) a different Alpine Linux version to your workstation&#039;s i.e. current-stable vs Edge or vice-versa in case your current impasse is due to a temporary conflict, say, in Edge, it may not manifest in current-stable<br /> ::(b) a different distribution<br /> This would be handy as a fallback workstation operating system to investigate the issue<br /> <br /> == Maintenance ==<br /> <br /> Remember to copy over working {{Path|.config}} files, user guides, etc. from your current system onto the rescue disk beforehand. <br /> <br /> {{Tip|Update the rescue disk periodically, particularly if major changes are made to your system.}}<br /> <br /> == Troubelshooting ==<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fix_my_Gentoo Gentoo recovery page]<br /> * [[Alpine rescue|List of useful packages]]<br /> * [https://www.system-rescue.org/ Systemrescue CD] <br /> <br /> [[Category:System Administration]]</div>

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