Can finnix be upgraded?
Currently finnix is rather old and tools like resize2fs can no longer properly resize fully featured ext4 filesystems (just as an example). Would be nice to have some newer tools in rescue mode. I know I can 'rescue' in any OS of my choice but it is super convenient to just click 'rescue'.
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scrane
Linode Staff
Hey there, I can absolutely understand what you mean. I think updating our recovery tools would be a great idea and I've passed the suggestion along to our team. In the meantime, it does seem you understand this already but I just want to pass the information along for anyone who isn't familiar:
If you would like to deploy your own rescue setup, you can create a fresh disk on your Linode and upload the image directly to that disk by following the steps in our Custom Distribution Guide.
Thank you again for the suggestion!