fedora equivalent of recovery disk

[Rich]

On 12/12/2011 3:13 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
>> Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the
>> equivalent of "a recovery disk" that I can create with k3b so, assuming
>> the problem is fixable, I can reinstall without having to go back to the
>> original install disk (and then go through all the customizations and
>> additional downloads). I've look on the Fedora docs (installation_guide)
>> and didn't see anything. I am presuming that this is something that
>> exists and I just haven't been able to google the right thing (or I've
>> googled and not seen it as the right thing).
> 
> I suggest making a image of the hard drive with dd command and store
> it in a usb drive. You should use a liveCD to do this.
> 
> Emilio.
Better than dd, use ddrescue.  The -S option makes a sparse copy which
will take up much less disk space and will be correspondingly faster.
Also you can stop and start without having to start over.
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