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Aaru is a tool designed to handle different media dump formats (also called disc or disk images) and do common operations with them.

What do you want to do?

• Set which information will Aaru send to you
• Get a list of all formats supported
• Get a list of all supported character set encodings
• Lists all namespaces supported by read-only filesystems.

Database commands:

• See my own usage statistics
• Update the main Aaru database

Device commands:

• Get information from a physical device
• Test physical device capabilities and create an XML report of them
• Get a list of all supported physical devices

Filesystem commands:

• Show information about the partitions and filesystems in a media dump
• Extract all files contained in a media dump
• List all files contained in a media dump

Image commands:

• Get checksums or hashes from a dump
• Compare two media dumps
• Convert a media dump from one format to another
• Create XML sidecar with metadata of a dump
• Decode media tags and print them
• Get a hexadecimal print of a media dump sector or block
• Verify integrity of a media dump or its contents
• Calculate entropy of a media dump

Media commands:

• Create a media dump from a physical device
• Show information about media inserted in a physical device
• Check readability of the media inserted in a physical device

What is supported by Aaru?

• Filters
• Media dump formats
• Partitioning schemes
• Filesystems
• Physical devices
• Checksum and hashes
• Known media tags
• Known sector/block tags

Comparing Aaru to similar software

Frequently Asked Questions

Bugs in other dumping software