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

[Jørn Lomax]

On 09/03/2012 05:57 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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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+1 for various filesystem utils

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Jørn Lomax
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CS student University of Tromsø