| badblocks |
| Used to search a disk or partition for badblocks. |
| cfdisk |
| Similar to fdisk but with a nicer interface. |
| debugfs |
| Allows direct access to filesystems data structure. |
| df |
| Shows the disk free space on one or more filesystems. |
| dosfsck |
| Check and repair MS-Dos filesystems. |
| du |
| Shows how much disk space a directory and all its files contain. |
| dump |
| Used to back up an ext2 filesystem. Complement is restore. |
| dumpe2fs |
| Dump filesystem superblock and blocks group information. Ex: dumpe2fs /dev/hda2 |
| e2fsck |
| Check a Linux second extended filesystem. |
| e2label |
| Change the label on an ext2 filesystem. |
| exportfs |
| Used to set up filesystems to export for nfs (network file sharing). |
| fdisk |
| Used to fix or create partitions on a hard drive. |
| fdformat |
| Formats a floppy disk. |
| fsck |
| Used to add new blocks to a filesystem. Must not be run on a mounted file system. |
| hdparm |
| Get/set hard disk geometry parameters, cylinders, heads, sectors. |
| mkfs |
| Initializes a Linux filesystem. This is a front end that runs a separate program depending on the filesystem's type. |
| mke2fs |
| Create a Linux second extended filesystem. |
| mkswap |
| Sets up a Linux swap area on a device or file. |
| mount |
| Used to mount a filesystem. Complement is umount. |
| rdev |
| Query/set image root device, swap device, RAM disk size of video mode. What this does is code the device containing the root filesystem into the kernel image specified. |
| rdump |
| Same as dump. |
| rmt |
| Remote magtape protocol module. |
| restore |
| Used to restore an ext2 filesystem. |
| setfdprm |
| Set floppy drive parameters. |
| swapoff(8) |
| Used to de-activate a swap partition. |
| swapon(8) |
| Used to activate a swap partition. |
| sync |
| Forces all unwritten blocks in the buffer cache to be written to disk. |
| tune2fs |
| Adjust tunable filesystem parameters on second extended filesystems. |
| umount |
| Unmounts a filesystem. Complement is mount. |
