Thanks all for the feedback.
Tip of the hat to whoever created the Fedora Live troubleshooting. It has (at least) gparted, fdisk, fsck, smartctl and badblocks. Seems like that should be enough for my purposes. (Aside from a hammer :-)
Interestingly, the first three do not find any issues. badblocks froze the system. smartctl is running, so we'll see
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:04 PM Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18/11/22 07:08, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I find myself in need of a bootable rescue disk that provides (at
> least) disk diagnostics and disk wipe programs. (I have a F36 thumb -
> I assume that it has neither)
> Referrals would be greatly appreciated.
Depending on what level of diagnostics you want and what you are trying
to do with disk wiping (are you only wanting to remove specific files or
remove everything to start again, in which case would re-formatting the
partition/disk or deleting/re-creating the partition suffice?), if you
have another pc where you can download and burn a CD/DVD or get the
program on a flash disk then Gparted may provide what you are looking
for, which also is in the Fedora repositories. That application will
expand/contract partitions, create partitions, format partitions, create
disks as DOS/GPT, and do some rudimentary disk checks. If you have KDE
there is also KDE Partition Manager in the Fedora repositories which
does similar things to Gparted, but I prefer to use Gparted as you can
also get a version that will run in a windows environment. It is also
possible to get ISO images for Gparted where once burnt to a CD/DVD it
will boot into Gparted.
regards,
Steve
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