| Tool | Strengths | Weaknesses | |------|-----------|-------------| | binwalk | Excellent for firmware carving | Repacking limited, no filesystem-level repack | | unsquashfs / mksquashfs | Reliable for SquashFS | Format-specific; no unified frontend | | Android Image Kitchen | Good for boot/recovery images | Android-only, no generic repack | | 7-Zip | Great for standard archives | No sparse files, no ext4, no permissions |