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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.

ChangeLog
Here are the most important changes made in each SystemRescue release. It only shows changes in the versions of the Linux kernel and relevant utilities. The full list of packages provides more details about the exact versions of all other packages.

11.00) 2024-01-28:

- Updated the kernel to the Long-Term-Supported linux-6.6.14
- Added option “ssh_known_hosts” in yaml config to trust SSH CAs signatures on host keys
- Fix the “findroot” boot option when /sbin/init is an absolute symlink (#340)
- Fix the “findroot” loop when the password to any encrypted device is unknown (#342)
- Update XFCE Configuration (enabled screen saver, added battery icon)
- Package “dstat” has been replaced with “dool” which is a fork of dstat
- Added bcachefs-tools (file system utilities for bcachefs, no kernel module yet)
- Added blocksync-fast (block device sync tool for block-based backups) (#361)
- Added sleuthkit (tools for raw file system inspection) (#349)
- Added timeshift (snapshot-based backup program) (#350)


For info see: https://www.system-rescue.org/