system

System

• GParted (gparted)
  • Disk patitioning
• VerCrypt (veracrypt)
  • File + disk encryption
• k3b
  • Disk burning
• VirtualBox (virtualbox)
  • Virtual machines
  • sudo pacman -S virtualbox
  • Activate kernel modules: sudo modprobe vboxdrv
  • Download (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) and import in VBox Extensions
• rmlint
  • Finds duplicates, empty files etc.
  • Provides an editable shell script as output that will do the clean-up
• remmina: RDP connections in Linux
• caffeine: Prevent display to turn-off (temporarily)
  • sudo apt-get install caffeine
• Duplicati
  • Mac and Windows
  • Encrypted incremental backups

HDD/SSD/... related

• badblocks
  • checks for badblocks of a harddrive
• GSmartControl
  • check smart values of harddrives
• testdisk
  • data recovery tool
• Konqueror
  • Has a nice file size view (tree map)
• PhotoRec
  • Data/Photo/... recovery
  • Multi-platform
  • Supported file formats: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec
  • "PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted."
  • Comes togehter with TestDisk
    • "TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table)."

Network

• Wireshark
  • Analyse network traffic
• Zenmap
  • Network analysis (hosts, stats, ...)