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Welcome to the tc-hdd-tools wiki!

Description

This is the first public release of the hdd-tools image. This image has scripts to help automate the following:

  • Running fsck on all connected ext* file systems, in the event the user isn't comfortable doing so on their own
  • Runs 'fsck -yf' by default when booting the hdd-utilities option. This equates to running 'fsck-all yes short'

  • Also supports running 'fsck -fcck' by running the 'fsck-all' script with no arguments.

  • NOTE: As always, there is a chance of data being destroyed or lost by running fsck, please take adequate backups.

  • If you have to use this script (run fsck) to get your system to boot again, it is recommended to take backups as soon as possible and reinstall the system at the earliest convenient maintenance window.

  • Running S.M.A.R.T. tests on hard drives, using smartmontools.

  • This is handled by the 'smart-all' script

  • It supports testing hard drives connected to various RAID cards in addition to directly connected.

  • Supports running only one of: short, conveyance, or long. This is handled by passing '-s', '-c', or '-l' respectively to 'smart-all'

  • Running 'shred' on connected drives, using 'shred-all' script

  • This requires typing 'YES' when prompted before it will actually shred a volume

  • NOTE: shred will erase all contents of the disk, make sure you take adequate backups.

Directions for extracting and writing

  1. This is distributed as a Sparse tar file, you will need either tar or 7-zip to extract it.
tar -Sxzvf hdd-tools-v0.5.3.tgz
  1. If capable, the image should be verified. sha512, sha1, and md5 checksums are provided inside the tar file, for use with sha512sum, sha1sum, or md5sum, respectively.
$ sha512sum -c hdd-tools.img.sha512
hdd-tools.img: OK
$ md5sum hdd-tools.img
64f14cf8d21cfee1154b238d9eeb5770  hdd-tools.img
$ cat hdd-tools.img.sha1
0500f88622b6e5e4a8365048ca56756bce9ab059  hdd-tools.img
$ cat hdd-tools.img.sha512
b930b7bfcc667884bac0d10f1daa828284dc6550e0dc8c19c32b81b6f8f1c5b304e53401f09003690427cf18b32072f5ae0ade39363dd13c082a74313c560abc  hdd-tools.img
  1. This image is intended to be written to a 2GB or larger USB thumb/pen/flash drive.
  • It can be written using the 'dd' utility in Linux/Unix based systems.
    • Be extremely careful using 'dd'. if you mix up the parameters or use the wrong one, you will destroy data.
dd if=hdd-tools.img of=/dev/sdb

Directions for Use

  1. Install the USB pen drive into your system and reboot
  • If your system is not configured to boot from USB when available, you may need to enter a boot-override or one-time-boot menu in order to boot from the USB pen drive.
  1. A "System Utilities" menu will be displayed with these options:
  • (Re)Boot USB
  • Boot Next Device - OS
  • Hard Drive Utilities
  • Memory Test
  1. The first two options bring you back to this menu or cancel the boot from USB and continue a normal boot of your system, respectively.
  2. Hard Drive Utilities provides a remastered Tiny Core 7.2 image with the scripts provided in this repository
  3. Memory Test runs MemTest86+
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