Welcome to the Aaru wiki.

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?'''
* [[Analyze a media dump|Analyzing-a-media-dump]]
* [[Check how fast will Aaru create hashes on my computer|Checksum-benchmarking]]
* [[Get checksums or hashes from a dump|Getting-hashes-and-checksums-from-a-media-dump]]
* [[Compare two media dumps|Comparing-two-media-dumps]]
* [[Set which information will Aaru send to you|Configure-Aaru-statistics]]
* [[Convert a media dump from one format to another|Convert-image]]
* [[Create XML sidecar with metadata of a dump|Creating-metadata-sidecar-XML]]
* [[Decode media tags and print them|Decoding-and-printing-media-tags]]
* [[Get information from a physical device|Getting-information-from-a-physical-device]]
* [[Test physical device capabilities and create an XML report of them|Reporting-physical-device-capabilities]]
* [[Create a media dump from a physical device|Creating-a-dump-from-physical-media]]
* [[Calculate entropy of a media dump|Calculate-dump-contents-entropy]]
* [[Extract all files contained in a media dump|Extracting-files-from-a-media-dump]]
* [[Get a list of all formats supported|List-supported-formats]]
* [[Get a list of all supported physical devices|List-supported-devices]]
* [[Get a list of all supported character set encodings|List-supported-encodings]]
* [[List all files contained in a media dump|List-files]]
* [[Lists all options supported by read-only filesystems and writable media images|List-options]]
* [[Show information about media inserted in a physical device|Getting-information-from-media-inserted-in-a-physical-device]]
* [[Check readability of the media inserted in a physical device|Check-readability-of-the-media-inserted-in-a-physical-device]]
* [[Get a hexadecimal print of a media dump sector or block|Get-a-hexadecimal-print-of-a-media-dump-sector-or-block]]
* [[See my own usage statistics|Show-statistics]]
* [[Verify integrity of a media dump or its contents|Verifying-media-dump-integrity]]

'''What is supported by Aaru?'''
* [[Filters|Supported-filters]]
* [[Media dump formats|Media-dump-formats-supported-by-Aaru]]
* [[Partitioning schemes|Partitioning-schemes-recognized-by-Aaru]]
* [[Filesystems|Filesystems-recognized-by-Aaru]]
* [[Physical devices|Supported-devices]]
* [[Checksum and hashes|Supported-checksums]]
* [[Known media tags|Media-tags]]
* [[Known sector/block tags|Sector-Tags]]

'''[[Comparing Aaru to similar software|Comparison]]'''

'''[[Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently-Asked-Questions]]'''

'''[[Bugs in other dumping software|Bugs-in-other-dumping-software]]'''
