Re: Emergency kit?

From: fergus (tofergus@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 10/05/01 

Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:48:05 +0100
From: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Emergency kit?
Message-ID: <20011005104805.A493@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>

On 02.10-05:47, Janto Trappe wrote:
> * Systems Administrator <sysadmin@sunet.com.au> [17-09-01 10:36]:
>
> > What do people have in their kit to deal with emergencies? In our last
> > emergency, I was directed to "Tom's Rescue Disk" (http://www.toms.net/rb/).
> > I realised that it would be useful to have a printout of /etc/fstab from
> > every machine. Is there anything else which people would recommend to me?
> > (disks, printouts, whatever).

if you are capturing the fstab, i'd suggest getting a complete partition map
of all disks so that you know the logical location of file systems.

this may become complicated with complex disk solutions (vinum || similar) but
worth while for analysis - recovery of data.

i'm not familiar with the tools but i guess they may already do this ? ? ?