The smartmontools package contains two open source utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems
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Category: System Software
hdparm – get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters
hdparm is an open source, command-line, performance and benchmarking utility to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters.
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NVMe-CLI – NVM-Express user space tooling
NVMe-CLI is an NVMe management command line interface. This offers a powerful feature set that follows the NVMe specification
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sg3_utils – utilities that send SCSI commands to devices
The sg3_utils package contains utilities that send SCSI commands to devices. This is free and open source software written in C.
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sdparm – accesses SCSI device parameters
The sdparm utility accesses SCSI device parameters. This is free and open source software written in the C language.
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openSeaChest – perform various operations on SATA, SAS, NVMe, and USB storage devices
openSeaChest is a collection of comprehensive, easy-to-use command line diagnostic tools and programming libraries for storage devices.
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GPT fdisk – set of text-mode partitioning tools
GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts programs) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools.
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Immich is a simple to use backup tool for self-hosted photos and videos
Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Time Machine
Time Machine is a built-in backup feature to back up your personal data automatically, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – System Administration
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering disk cloning, partition tools, configuration management, application servers, data recovery and more.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Utilities: System Monitoring Center
System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It’s free and open source software written in the Python programming language.
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Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal
bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Console
Apple Console is a system utility which collects log messages that are generated from your computer and connected devices. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard
WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.
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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)
Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2022
We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2022.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility
Apple Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules
kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.
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