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

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

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

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

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