On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 17:38 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket
> brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1].
> While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very
> good thing to have, we don't really know how to achieve such a thing.
> Additionally, we're not really sure what the scope of things should
> be
> provided in said recovery environment and what kind of things people
> would expect to be able to fix in there.
>
> So I come to y'all to ask about this and give us some feedback on the
> idea, how to do it, and what kinds of things you expect people to
> need
> a recovery environment for.

There are a couple of things.
One important but overlooked usecase is offline repartioning. Modifing
the disk partioning is imposiple on a live disk(maybe with lvm). Its
nice to to have a equivalent of gparted live available for such works.