ALT Linux Rescue is a moderate sized console LiveCD distribution that is designed to help sysadmins fix and repair many kinds of problems with systems they are or feel responsible for; so it comes with tools aiding to:
- Perform hardware diagnostics
- Resize partitions
- Fix bootloaders, partitions, filesystems
- Recover partitions and files deleted by accident
- Backup and restore to network servers
- Deal with optical, tape and file archives
- Optimize filesystem usage
- Diagnose network problems and remote services
- Wipe partitions or drives clean of residual information
- Access Android devices, reset Windows passwords, etc
- Investigate unauthorized access/security breach events
All of that is packaged into a convenient hybrid ISO image file suitable for both CD/DVD media and USB Flash pendrives.
The resulting media should be bootable on most of the common systems:
- i586 ones starting roughly with Intel Pentium III (256 MB RAM) or equivalent,
- x86_64 ones on any AMD64 compatible hardware with BIOS or UEFI[4],
- aarch64 ones on any ARMv8 compatible hardware with UEFI.
Visit the Alt Linux project website here:
https://en.altlinux.org/Main_Page