[Fedora-spins] more rescue type tools on live media?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 22:13:45 -0400
Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
> wrote:
> 
> > I use spins as back up rescue media. I'd just assume be able to use
> > one of the standard spins (typically games or Gnome) as my rescue
> > image and would like to have a fairly complete set of rescue tools
> > available. So I like the idea of including a partitioning tool. I
> > usually use fdisk myself, but I don't have a problem with gparted
> > being the one we include.
> 
> fdisk only works for legacy DOS labeled disks - it won't work with
> newer GPT-style disklabels. So it makes sense to have something that
> would, and gparted fills the bill there. Not entirely sure what other
> tools would be useful, but I'm sure there are others.
> 
> Thoughts?

testdisk, extundelete, and the various filesystem utils would be
helpfull I think, but they will take up a bit more space. 

kevin
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