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admedit a system configuration file editing tool, which is similar to vipw in that it allows sysadminst to edit configuration files without clobbering changes made simultaneously by other sysadmins Channel 16 a graphical tool for recovering accidentally deleted files in ext2 filesystem. The application allows users to peer data blocks interactively for finding the right file and save them chkconfig a tool to simplify management of the symbolic links in /etc/rc.d under Linux ddrescue copies data from one file or block device (hard disk, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors dirgroup a script for merging the contents of a directory, /etc/group.d, into the file /etc/group. Storing group information in a directory allows users other than root to own and manage Unix groups diskfree diskfree runs through your disk adding up filesizes and then sends an email to you reporting (as best it can) on what space usage differs today from yesterday. diskWriggler a benchmark tool for testing disk-based storage throughput. It has been designed to provide a report that is meaningful to systems engineers working in the film and post-production industries e2compr The Linux e2compr package consists of a set of patches and utilities to provide transparent compression and decompression in the second extended (ext2) filesystem. E2fsprogs provides the filesystem utilities for use with the ext2 filesystem. It also supports the experimental ext3 filesystem with journaling support e2recover e2recover is a suite of tools for assisting in file undeletion from ext2 file systems. e2salvage e2salvage is a utility which tries to do in-place data recovery a from damaged ext2 filesystems. Unlike e2fsck, it does not look for the data at particular places and it don't tend to believe the data it finds; thus it can handle much more damaged filesystem. e2salvage tries its best to recover the directory structure of the filesystem, if this fails lost files will be linked to root. Environ Environ provides an interface for manipulating your Linux environment. expiredir a small perl program for expiring old files in a directory structure. Requires Getopt::Long to function properly File Ripper File Ripper is a file extractor based on header recognition. It can be used to recover files from unfragmented disk images where filesystem information has been lost or otherwise corrupted, or the files have been inadvertently deleted. It detects and extracts PNG, HTML, GIF, ZIP, LBM, PBM, ANM, BAT, BAS, RTF, HLP, WAV, WRI, JPG, ARJ, DOS EXE, ANS, ZZT, FRM, text BAS, BMP, MZB, FLI, MSP, DOC, MZX, GDM, IT, S3M, SAV, BRD, LZH/LHA, MOD, XM, VOC, SVX, ABM, Quetzal, and certain obscure bulletin board system formats. file-utils a collection of tools such as recursive chown, recursive chgrp to make a sysadmin's job easier FileTrace clone of 'installwatch'. It logs file creation and modification by some process and its children findfile will be a collection of tools for recovering files from filesystems with corrupted directories/allocationtables/etc. This can be useful when the partition table (or more) of a hard disk is corrupted G4L G4L is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool. The created images are optionally compressed, and they can be stored on a local hard drive or transferred to an anonymous FTP server. A drive can be cloned using the "Click'n'Clone" function. G4L supports file splitting if the local filesystem does not support writing files >2GB. The included kernel supports ATA, serial-ATA, and SCSI drives. Common network cards are supported. It is packaged as a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI for easy use. genext2fs genext2fs generates an ext2 filesystem as a normal (i.e. non-root) user. It doesn't require you to mount the image file to copy files on it. It doesn't even require you to be the superuser to make device nodes or set group/user ids. Ghost for Linux Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost(c). The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally. Harddrake Harddrake makes the hardware configuration easier in Linux, by providing hardware detection and a nice graphical interface. ide-smart ide-smart performs and queries the results of various non destructive tests on a SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) capable IDE device, warning the administrator when a device is about to or already failing. IOzone a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems. Kleandisk Kleandisk is a utility intended to remove those files from your hard disk you can probably live without. KlinuxScsiManager allows you to add or remove SCSI devices to/from your SCSI subsystem on the fly. It is especially useful for external devices such as scanners, tapes, or external CD-drives KPartEd KPartEd is a GUI disk partitioning utility for KDE and Qt/Embedded. The partition management is handled using libparted with KPartEd providing an easy to use front end. The partition types currently supported are: ext2, FAT (including VFAT and FAT32), linux swap, HFS, NTFS and ReiserFS. lde a disk editor for linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple ncurses interface that looks and feels like an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS Logical Volume Manager Logical Volume Manager is a subsystem for on-line disk storage management which has become a de-facto standard for storage management accross UNIX implementations. lvm-viewer a tool for viewing and managing Logical Volumes. It allows you to visualise your volume groups, physical volumes, and logical volumes Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it mdadm for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux "md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID PartGUI a nice Graphical User Interface, which allows Linux partition tools to be as easy to use as commercial tools. It works under XWindow or with the Frame Buffer. It's based on Qt from trolltech. For the moment, it only provides the following parted features: create partition, destroy partition, erase all partitions, and a partition Petal a tool for maintaining permissions on trees of Unix files. Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode (typically set by the commands chown, chgrp, and chmod, respectively, or their equivalent system calls) by recalling this information from a central data store, i.e. a config file PyMou PyMou is a udev specific partition mounter meant for easy mounting of partitions. It is written in python and pygtk. It relies on there being a udev device filesystem in place, and only shows 3 char block devices (sd*/hd*). recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion-howto in order to undelete a file. It increases your lost-file-recover-rate a LOT. It's also very useful to beginners! recoverdm will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices. In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recoverd, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues safecopy safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors. Scrounge NTFS a data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition sformat sformat is a program to format/analyze/repair SCSI hard disks on a SunOS/Solaris/Linux. Spacehog searches recursively through a directory that you specify and creates an html report (at the $repdir variable) of the ten largest files for your internal administration web site System Installer an installation tool which is designed to build Linux images. It can be used to build and install an image directly to a machine, or it may build secondary images to be distributed to remote clients transitmount transitmount provides simple rack/removable hard disk management. It mounts partitions not mentioned in fstab, possibly by volume name. umsdos_progs contains latest umssync, udosctl, umssetup and other umsdos related utilities wyoFiler shows all directories and files of a base directory in the same tree window. Directories and/or files can be selected and processed across the whole hierarchy from the base directory all the way down into the lowest level zeroer The zeroer utility can be used to wipe empty space on a disk. In contrary to dd, zeroer does not wipe existing files on a partition. It overwrites the unallocated disk spa ce around existing files, which means that deleted files cannot be restored after processing a certain partition with zeroer. The utility's principle consists in writing huge zero-padded memory blocks to a file. To a certain extent, this works similar to dd, but zeroer dynamically reduces the blockwriter's buffer size when the filesystem is going to be full.
