Boot a Linode into rescue mode

Rescue Mode is a safe environment for performing many system recovery and disk management tasks. Rescue Mode is based on the Finnix recovery distribution, a self-contained and bootable Linux distribution. You can also use Rescue Mode for tasks other than disaster recovery, such as formatting disks to use different filesystems, copying data between disks, and downloading files from a disk via SSH and SFTP.

Linodes with legacy configuration interfaces receive a public IP and boot into the recovery Linux distribution. Linodes with Linode interfaces still boot into recovery mode with the recovery Linux distribution, but they retain their original network interfaces and settings from before entering rescue mode.

• Note that sdh is reserved and unavailable during rescue.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

• Identity and access permissions. Your user needs a role with these permissions. Learn more.

  • Permissions: rescue_linode

• OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

  • Scopes: linodes:read_write

CLI

linode-cli linodes rescue 123 \
  --devices.sda.disk_id 124458

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