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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What bootable "live" images of useful tools? (feddit.nl)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've repurposed a 32 GB M.2 SATA SSD as a bootable "USB stick" and I'm putting useful tools on it. So far I've got memtest, seatools, gparted live, system rescue, clonezilla, and a live install iso of the distro installed on my PC. What other great bootable tools am I sleeping on?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Testdisk, clamxTK, rkhunter or chkrootkit, mobile verification toolkit, lshw, time shift maybe deja-dup.

I think your idea is a good one. Like a linux Swiss Army knife. You can have lots of tools that you don't need all the time but might be handy in a pinch. Especially if you don't have internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Testdisk is great. I recently cleaned a drive with diskpart and after the initial 100bpm "oh shit, wrong drive" moment, I fixed the partition structure with testdisk. Took a while, but pretty simple and easy to use.