menhera.sh

Start a RAM Linux system (Debian for now) without requiring physical access to your server.

With menhera.sh you can:

• format your system disk or create RAID
• install a new distro
• do important maintenance or backup with nobody writing to your root filesystem
• ...

with only SSH!

"menhera" is short for "mental healer".

Dependencies

• Linux kernel: overlayfs and tmpfs support
• systemd
• squashfs-tools
• wget

Usage

Just download and run.

Known issues

• Cannot auto detect rootfs URL

Thanks

• This project is inspired by marcan/takeover.sh
• The major code came from a maintenance writeup on my blog (in Simp. Chinese)
• xTom.com donated a VPS for my testing