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About SystemRescue

Description: SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and 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 hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.

System tools included

    GNU Parted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).
    GParted: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.
    FSArchiver: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software
    ddrescue : Attempts to make a copy of a block device that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy.
    File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk
    Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions.
    Test-disk : tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext3/ext4 and many others
    Memtest: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)
    Rsync: very-efficient and reliable program that can be used for remote backups.
    Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, …): to backup your data across the network


Change log:

9.01) 2022-02-10:

    Updated the kernel to the Long-Term-Supported linux-5.15.22
    Support for adding Certification Authorities (CAs) via YAML config (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Uncompress kernel modules so the squashfs compression provides a better ratio (#247)
    Optimized the initramfs compression to reduce the size of the ISO (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Added development build option: faster build times but lower compression (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Remove Q-Logic Fibrechannel/Infiniband HBA firmware to save space (#256)
    Implemented a script to determine the effective configuration from yaml files (#251)
    Added boot option ‘sysrescuecfg’ to control how the configuration is loaded (#254)
    Added support for loading remote yaml configuration files over http/https (#254)
    Allow all kinds of scripts to be used for autorun, not just /bin/sh (Gerd v. Egidy)

9.00) 2022-01-16:

    Updated the kernel to the Long-Term-Supported linux-5.15.14
    The new kernel brings the ntfs3 module which provides better NTFS support
    The system comes with a copy of the website as an offline manual (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Added sysrescue-customize script to create custom ISO images (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Initial support for configuring the system with YAML files (#170)
    Support for configuring autorun with the new YAML configuration files
    Replaced the mesa package with a minimal alternative to save 52MB (#241)
    Converted the bash system initialisation script to python (#170)
    Removed XOrg driver “xf86-video-qxl” as it is currently not stable (#235)
    Bring back accidently removed package inetutils (telnet, ftp, hostname,…)
    Added packages: aq, libisoburn, patch, python-llfuse, python-yaml, rdiff-backup

8.07) 2021-12-19:

    Updated kernel to the Long-Term-Supported linux-5.10.87
    Pacman uses snapshot repository to ease installation of packages (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Boot with “iomem=relaxed” by default as flashrom requires it (Gerd v. Egidy)
    Added packages: net-tools, cronie, at, archinstall, wqy-microhei