| Partition programs: |
| cfdisk
| curses-based disk partition table manipulator |
| fdisk
| partition table manipulator
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| gdisk
| text-mode partitioning tool that works on GPT disks |
| gpart
| guess PC-type hard disk partitions
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| GParted
| partition editor that uses libparted |
| parted
| partition manipulation program |
| sfdisk
| partition table manipulator |
| File System Tools: |
| btrfs
| btrfs is a new copy on write file system for Linux |
| Bonnie++
| benchmark suite aimed at performing a number of simple tests |
| curlftpfs
| file system for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl |
| dbench
| file system benchmark |
| diskdev_cmds
| OSX-ported, HFS+ utilities supplying mkfs and fsck |
| dosfstools
| utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT file systems |
| e2fsprogs
| ext2 file system utilities and libraries |
| EncFS
| provides an encrypted file system in userspace |
| fsarchiver
| save contents of a file system to a compressed archive file |
| FUSE
| file system in userspace |
| hfsplus
| set of tools to access HFS+ file systems |
| IOzone
| file system benchmark tool |
| ntfs-3g
| third generation NTFS driver |
| ntfsprogs
| tools for doing neat things with NTFS |
| reiser4progs
| administration utilities for Reiser4 file systems |
| reiserfsprogs
| user-level tools for ReiserFS file systems |
| sshfs
| file system client based on SSH
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| vmfs-tools
| access VMFS through standard Linux VFS via FUSE |
| xfsprogs
| utilities for managing XFS file systems
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| Booting Loader Tools: |
| grub
| GRand Unified Bootloader |
| HDT
| (Hardware Detection Tool) Syslinux com32 hardware analyzer module |
| 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} file systems |
| X Utilities: |
| Chromium
| open source web browser |
| Conky
| lightweight system monitor |
| emelFM2
| GTK+2 port of file manager emelFM |
| ePDFView
| lightweight PDF document viewer |
| File Roller
| archive manager |
| galculator
| GTK+ scientific calculator |
| GEncFS
| GUI to EncFS, for encrypted directory mounting |
| GPicView
| GTK+ image viewer |
| gtk-lshw
| GTK+ front-end for lshw |
| GSmartControl
| HDD health inspection tool (GUI for smartctl) |
| GSSHFS
| GUI to SSHFS, for distant directory over SSH mounting |
| hardinfo
| system profiler and benchmark
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| ISO Master
| GUI CD image editor
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| 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
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| SimpleBurn
| CD burning GUI |
| TrueCrypt
| software system for on-the-fly-encrypted volumes |
| UNetbootin
| create bootable, Live USB drives for Linux distros without burning a CD |
| XChat
| IRC chat program |
| Console Utilities: |
| BlueZ
| official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack
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| 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 |
| Clonezilla
| OpenSource clone system |
| 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
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| DRBL
| Diskless Remote Boot in Linux
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| ELinks
| text mode web browser
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| ext3grep
| recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 file systems
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| extundelete
| tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 file systems
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| file
| determine file type |
| hdparm
| get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters |
| hexedit
| view and edit files in hexadecimal |
| lftp
| command-line file transfer program |
| lm-sensors
| Linux hardware monitoring |
| lshw
| Hardware Lister |
| lsof
| (LiSt Open Files) displays information about files open to processes |
| 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
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| 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 |