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What portable utilities do you carry with you. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I personally always have one USB stick with me that has a live usb boot of Fedoraon it, but I just saw the new video from Linus tech tips and thought about extending it a bit.
He mostly talked about windows tools, but I think I will add

https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html for maybe an additional Linux light version
https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server if I have to share files from a broken Computer or so.

What are you using or do you have recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is having an OS boot on a USB really all that useful? Serious question.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Maybe not the same, but a knoppix CD was part of my toolkit for field work for many years. Stuff I did with it:

Retrieve or fix data from systems that could not boot.
Scan systems infected with boot viruses (clamscan), and wipe entire drives if necessary
Test various network issues: DHCP, DNS, tcpdump, and so on because Windows tools were pretty bad for a while
Bypass various Windows restrictions on user's systems

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It can be handy for recovery

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely, besides playing around with it and booting it on random Laptops, I revived two notebooks on the go. One had a broken windows install(somehow the main C drive nuked itself into 8 separate partitions) and she was still running Linux 1 month after that so I guess a win, and the other windows “Laptop” was super laggy(3-4 Gib of ram), but I granted the machine another two solid years(one time laptop run out of power during an big update, rest was great).