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To: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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Tomoaki AOKI writes:


> >  > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as 
> > some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote 
> > machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is always 
> > a problem.

I thought that is what /rescue is for ?

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