Friday, June 4, 2010

A Free Partitioning Tools

Partition programs:

cfdisk
curses-based disk partition table manipulator

fdisk
partition table manipulator

gdisk
text-mode partitioning tool that works on GPT disks

gpart
guess PC-type hard disk partitions

GParted
partition editor that uses libparted

parted
partition manipulation program

sfdisk
partition table manipulator
Filesystem Tools:

btrfs
btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux

Bonnie++
benchmark suite aimed at performing a number of simple tests

curlftpfs
filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl

dbench
filesystem benchmark

diskdev_cmds
OSX-ported, HFS+ utilities supplying mkfs and fsck

dosfstools
utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems

e2fsprogs
ext2 filesystem utilities and libraries

fsarchiver
save contents of a file-system to a compressed archive file

FUSE
filesystem in userspace

hfsplus
set of tools to access HFS+ filesystems

IOzone
filesystem benchmark tool

ntfs-3g
third generation NTFS driver

ntfsprogs
tools for doing neat things with NTFS

reiser4progs
administration utilities for Reiser4 filesystems

reiserfsprogs
user-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems

sshfs
filesystem client based on ssh

xfsprogs
utilities for managing XFS filesystems
Booting Loader Tools:

grub
GRand Unified Bootloader

install-mbr
installs and configures a Master Boot Record manager

lilo
LInux LOader

ms-sys
used to create Microsoft compatible boot records

syslinux
bootloaders for FAT, bootable "El Torito", and ext{2,3} filesystems

hdt
(Hardware Detection Tool, Syslinux com32 hardware analyzer module)
X Utilities:

Conky
lightweight system monitor

ePDFView
lightweight PDF document viewer

galculator
GTK+ scientific calculator

Google-Chrome
web browser

GPicView
GTK+ image viewer

gtk-lshw
GTK+ front-end for lshw

GSmartControl
HDD health inspection tool (GUI for smartctl)

ISO Master
GUI CD image editor

hardinfo
system profiler and benchmark

Mount-gtk
front end for pmount

Leafpad
GTK+ based simple text editor

LXMusic
minimalist music player for LXDE

LXTerminal
VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE

PCman FM
file manager

SimpleBurn
CD burning GUI

TrueCrypt
software system for on-the-fly-encrypted volumes

XChat
IRC chat program

Xarchiver
GTK+2 only frontend to various command line archivers
Console Utilities:

BlueZ
official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack

bzip2
(replaced by pigz)

bzip2recover
recover data from damaged bz2 files

cdrtools
allows recording to CD/DVD/BluRay media

chntpw
utility to (re)set passwords of local accounts on Windows systems

ClamAV
open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX

cURL
tool for transferring files with URL syntax

dcfldd
enhanced version of GNU dd

dc3dd
patched version of GNU dd

dd
convert and copy a file

ddrescue
does not abort on errors on the input file

device-mapper
kernel component that supports LVM

di
disk information utility

diff
compares two files, showing differences line by line

disktype
detect content format of disk or disk image

dmidecode
reports information about your system's hardware

dmraid
discover and activate software (ATA)RAID

ext3grep
recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition

extundelete
tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 file systems

file
determine file type

gzip
(replaced by pigz)

hdparm
get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters

hexedit
view and edit files in hexadecimal

lftp
command-line file transfer program

lshw
Hardware Lister

lsof
list open files

lspci
lists PCI buses and devices in the system

lsscsi
lists information about SCSI devices

lsusb
lists USB devices

lzip
gzip-like command line tool which uses LZMA compression

mdadm
manage MD devices, aka Linux Software Raid

Midnight Commander
file manager

multipath-tools
used to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver

myrescue
rescue still-readable data from a damaged harddisk

nano
editor aimed to replace Pico

openSSH
encrypt sessions using the SSH protocol

openSSL
open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols

partclone
a project similar to the well-known backup utility

partimage
utility which saves partitions to an image file

PhotoRec
digital photo recovery

pigz
parallel implementation of gzip that exploits multiple processors & cores

pmount
permits removable device mounting without matching /etc/fstab entry

pv
monitors the progress of data through a pipeline

RP-PPPoE
PPPoE client for Linux to connect to PPPoE service providers

rsync
fast incremental file transfer

rTorrent
text-based ncurses BitTorrent client

safecopy
data recovery tool

Scrounge NTFS
data recovery program for NTFS

sdparm
outputs and modifies SCSI device parameters

shred
securely delete a file

smartctl
control and monitor utility for SMART disks

stress
simple workload generator

TestDisk
partition scanner and disk recovery tool

TightVNC-viewer
remote control software package for connecting to a vnc server

UDPcast
transfer tool that can multicast data on a LAN

unarj
program used to uncompress .arj format archives

wpa_supplicant
implementation of an IEEE 802.11i supplicant

wipe
secure file wiping utility

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