SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network (samba and nfs). System tools included - GParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux.
- GNU Parted is the best text tool for editing your disk partitions under linux
- Partimage is a Ghost/Drive-image clone for Linux
- File systems tools (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): they allow you to format, resize, and debug an existing partition of your hard disk
- Ntfs3g: allows you to mount your Windows partition and get a full read/write unlimited access to the NTFS partition.
- Sfdisk allows you to backup and restore your partition table
- Test-disk tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others
- Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...)
You can browse the short system tools page for more details about the most important software included. You can also browse the detailed package list if you want to have a full list of the packages you can use.
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