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Date:      Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:04:44 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:        Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <202509010904.58194iP2007318@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20250901175827.73ba0ea24812cebe2263811f@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
References:  <7b384ac0-9b24-43a4-bf63-012d745155a7@gmail.com> <aKD970iOlzyQNi0d@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com> <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com> <20250901175827.73ba0ea24812cebe2263811f@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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