FlashIt v21.04

FlashIt is an app for managing USB sticks and SD cards. It can flash ISO/IMG files to USB sticks, create compressed backup images, format the card for storage, clone SD cards, mount/umount disk images, etc.

FlashIt can be installed on any Linux distribution based on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Manjaro, Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL. Both x86-based computers (Intel/AMD) and ARM-based computers (like the RPi4 and Odroid N2) are supported.

Written in Vala (which compiles to C and native code), FlashIt is under 1 MB in size and provides a lightweight alternative to similar tools like Etcher.

Highlights

• Flash ISO and IMG files to USB stick / SD card
• Create small, compressed images from a USB stick / SD card for backup or distribution.
• Create encrypted USB stick / SD card with BTRFS compression
• Clone one SD Card to another
• Shrink and Expand partitions

Features

• Flash ISO/IMG/Compressed-IMG files to USB stick / SD card
  • Compressed images are decompressed and flashed on-the-fly without creating temporary files
  • Supported file formats: .img .iso .7z .zip .img.xz .img.lzma .img.gz .img.bz2 .img.zst
  • Validate after flashing
  • Expand the last partition
  • Eject device
• Create IMG/Compressed-IMG files from USB stick / SD card
  • Create a compressed image using GZip, BZip, XZ, 7zip, Zip, and ZStd compression
  • Supported formats: .img .img.xz .img.gz .img.bz2 .img.zst .img.lz4
  • Remove junk files to reduce the size
  • Wipe free space to improve compression
  • Shrink the last partition to a minimum size
  • Modify device directly instead of creating a temporary image
• Format USB stick / SD card for storage
  • Formats a USB stick / SD card for storing files
  • Supported formats: FAT32, NTFS, EXFAT, EXT4, BTRFS, F2FS, etc
  • Create encrypted USB stick with LUKS encryption
  • Create BTRFS-formatted USB stick with transparent data compression
• Mount IMG/ISO images to a loop device
  • Browse partitions on the mounted loop device
  • Unmount loop device
• Shrink the last partition on the USB stick / SD card to the minimum size
• Expand the last partition on the USB stick / SD card to the maximum size
• Clone USB stick or SD Card to another USB stick or SD Card
  • Clone directly from device-to-device
  • Clone from a smaller to a larger device
  • Clone from a larger to a smaller device (if the smaller device has enough space)
  • Fast cloning – Shrink partitions before cloning

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