Mounting Other Filesystems

Data Recovery from Jaz Disks [2002/03/19]

Searching for Resources on Forensic Computing? [2002/02/28]

User Account Management? [2002/02/20]

Complete Filesystem Checkpointing? [2002/02/10]

Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? [2002/02/07]

Affordable Home Backups for 10-100G Systems? [2001/12/11]

Is Storage Capacity Outstriping Backup Capability? [2001/11/06]

Laptop Data Recovery? [2001/11/02]

Unlocking a Travelstar 2.5" HDD? [2001/11/02]

Data Recovery for the Rest of Us? [2001/10/14]

Reliable Offsite Backup Services for Linux? [2001/10/02]

Filesystems, Metadata and Future OS Integration? [2001/09/14]

Tape Backups for Personal Use, Using Linux? [2001/05/27]

Protecting Your Backup Media? [2001/04/17]

What Are Appropriate Sizes For Linux Partitions? [ 2000/08/06]

NFS In A Disk Write Intensive Environment? [ 2000/08/03]

How can I mount a floppy msdos floppy drive as myselfrather than as root? [ 2000/08/01]

What can I do about the "/kernel: file table is full"messages that I see all too often? [ 2000/06/01]

Why does BSD report fragmentation on the disks even after a fresh install? [ 2000/05/01]

I want to use amd which is already installed; how do I turn it on? [ 2000/05/01]

Sharing disks with Windows: here's another option. [ 2000/05/01]

Mounting ISO9660 image files on FreeBSD, what's the scoop? [ 2000/05/01]

My power has gone out unexpectly in recent days.How can I automate my BSD system to auto-sync my disks, say, every fewseconds... just in case? [ 2000/04/01]

How do I mount an ISO 9660 filesystem? [ 2000/03/01]

Multi-Disk CD Backup Solutions for Linux? [ 1999/11/11]

My /var partition is starting to overflow, help! [ 1999/07/01]

Is there a way of using my excess space is /usr for /var files? [ 1999/04/01]

What are my backup options? [ 1999/02/01]

amd(8) - automatically mount file systems {oss}

amq(8) - automounter query tool {oss}

badsect(8) - create files to contain bad sectors {oss}

ccdconfig(8) - configuration utility for the concatenated disk driver {oss}

clri(8) - clear an inode {oss}

fsck(8) - file system consistency check and interactive repair {oss}

fsck_ext2fs(8) - Second Extended File System consistency check and interactive repair {oss}

fsck_ffs, fsck(8) - Fast File System consistency check and interactive repair {oss}

fsck_msdos(8) - DOS/Windows (FAT) filesystem consistency checker {oss}

fsdb(8) - FFS debugging/editing tool {oss}

disklabel(8) - read and write disk pack label {oss}

dump(8) - filesystem backup {oss}

dumpfs(8) - dump file system information {oss}

fdisk(8) - DOS partition maintenance program {oss}

fsinfo(8) - co-ordinate site-wide filesystem information {oss}

fsirand(8) - randomize inode generation numbers {oss}

newfs mount_mfs(8) - construct a new file system {oss}

mkisofs(8) - create a iso9660 filesystem with optional Rock Ridge attributes. {oss}

mount(8) - mount file systems {oss}

mount_ados(8) - mount an AmigaDOS file system {oss}

mount_cd9660(8) - mount an ISO-9660 filesystem {oss}

mount_ext2fs(8) - mount a ext2fs file system {oss}

mount_fdesc(8) - mount the file-descriptor file system {oss}

mount_ffs mount_ufs(8) - mount a Berkeley Fast File System {oss}

mount_kernfs(8) - mount the /kern file system {oss}

mount_msdos(8) - mount an MS-DOS file system {oss}

mount_nfs(8) - mount nfs file systems {oss}

mount_null(8) - demonstrate the use of a null file system layer {oss}

mount_portal(8) - mount the portal daemon {oss}

mount_procfs(8) - mount the process file system {oss}

mount_umap(8) - sample file system layer {oss}

mount_union(8) - mount union filesystems {oss}

mountd(8) - service remote NFS mount requests {oss}

sync(8) - force completion of pending disk writes (flush cache) {oss}

tunefs(8) - tune up an existing file system {oss}

umount(8) - unmount file systems {oss}

update(8) - flush internal filesystem caches to disk frequently {oss}

newfs_msdos(8) - create an MS-DOS (FAT) file system {oss}

rdconfig(8) - configure RAM disks {oss}

restore(8) - restore files or file systems from backups made with dump {oss}

rmt(8) - remote magtape protocol module {oss}

mk-amd-map(8) - create database maps for Amd {oss}

scan_ffs(8) - find UFS/FFS partitions on a disk {oss}

vnconfig(8) - configure vnode disks {oss}

amanda-2.3.0.4 - The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Tape Library Control Program - Tape changer and tape library control program. Now includes features for controlling mid to large sized tape libraries. {(L)GPL}

Amanda Tape Backup - AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA users native dump a {BSD-like}

File Check Daemon - The file check daemon monitors files according to rules defined in configuration files. When a file is considered stable (due to its age, presence of a flag file, etc.) then it gets copied to a new location. Rotating backups of the destination file {BSD-like}

Diskfree - A script to be run from cron to monitor your disk space usage and mail a report of any changes to you {(L)GPL}

Linux ROM filesystem - romfs is a read-only, space-efficient linux filesystem, and this is a place for test kernel patches, and user space tools to manage filesystems in this format. {(L)GPL}

Ext2 Filesystems Utilities - The Ext2 Filesystem Utilities (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems. {(L)GPL}

Lomega - Lomega is similar in functionality to Iomega's® IomegaWare Tools.® It allows the user to mount and umount disks easily and also features the ability to change the protection status of a disk. Lomega supports compressed file backup's. {(L)GPL}

tmpwatch-2.8.1 - A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed

ssync-2.2 - A minimalistic tool for keeping filesystems in synchronization

parchive-1.0 - Parity Archiver - makes multiple parity volumes from a set of files

nwclient-6.0.2 - network backup client to NetWorker servers

diskcheckd-20010823_3 - Daemon to check for disk read errors

cdrtools-1.11.a21 - Cdrecord, mkisofs and several other programs to record CD-R[W]

amanda-server-2.4.3b2_2 - The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

amanda-client-2.4.3b2 - The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

afbackup-server-3.3.5_2 - AF's backup system

afbackup-3.3.5_2 - AF's backup system

bcwipe-0.2.4 - BCWipe securely erase data from magnetic and solid-state memory

pdumpfs-0.5 - A daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs

samefile-2.9 - Find files with identical contents

symlinks-1.2 - Symbolic link maintenance utility

cpbk-2.0 - Backup Copy programm

cpdup-1.03 - A comprehensive filesystem mirroring program

fsck_ext2fs-2.8 - Ext2fs filesystem consistency check and interactive repair

gpart-0.1h - Tries to recover lost partition tables and file systems

ja-msdosfs-20001027 - Mount a Microsoft FAT Japanese file system

nwclient-5.5.2 - Network backup client to NetWorker servers

vxtools-0.2 - Command-line utilities for reading Veritas Filesystem (VxFS)

xcdroast-0.98.a.9 - Another X11 frontend to mkisofs/cdrecord

ffsrecov-0.5 - Recover files from a corrupt FFS

rawio-1.1 - Test performance of low-level storage devices

wmfsm-0.31 - Displays filesystem usage of mountpoints in a nice WindowMaker dockapp

postmark-1.5 - NetApps file system benchmark

xtail-2.1 - Watches the growth of files or directories

amanda24-server-2.4.2p2_2 - The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

flexbackup-0.9.8 - Perl-based, flexible tape backup system that uses dump, cpio, or afio

afbackup-client-3.3.5_2 - AF's backup system

filedupe-1.1 - A utility for quickly finding duplicate files

bonnie-1.0 - Performance Test of Filesystem I/O.

bytebench-3.1 - The BYTE magazine benchmark suite.

iozone-2.01 - Performance Test of Sequential File I/O (older version)

OpenNDMP - OpenNDMP is a NDMP v2.11 implementation for Linux with necessary changes to tar/backup/restore to support the service. The rpm and source will be posted shortly. {(L)GPL}

Ncpfs {GPL}

cfdisk - A curses based fdisk {GPL}

sfdisk - A complete rewrite of the Linux fdisk program {GPL}

The Global File System - A Shared Disk File System for Linux {GPL}

BFS Filesystem for Linux - read-only BFS modules for Linux {GPL}

TCFS - Transparent Cryptographic File System {GPL}

UDF - UDF filesystem kernel module {GPL}

e2fsprogs - Ext2 Filesystem Utilities {GPL}

HFS Filesystem for linux - Enables your system to read and write HFS filesystems {GPL}

NTFS for Linux - Read-only NTFS module for Linux {GPL}

FSDEXT2 - Mounts your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95 {GPL}

Autofs - Kernel based automounter for linux {GPL}

defrag - Filesystem defragmenter for Linux filesystems {GPL}

mount - Programs for mounting and unmounting filesystems {GPL}

ECLiPt Roaster - GTK Interface to MkIsoFs and CDRecord for writing CDs on the fly {x,GPL}

BurnIT - Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs {x,GPL}

CD builder - CD cue sheet and subcode generating tool for Linux/UNIX {x,GPL}

X-CD-Roast - A program-package dedicated to easy CD creation underLinux {x,GPL}

gcombust - gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord {x,GPL}

MigrateEasy Deluxe

System Rescue for Linux

Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation

BackUp MyPC

Backup Now! Deluxe

PartitionMagic 7.0

Norton Ghost 2002

Norton Utilities 2002

GoBack 3.0 Deluxe

Quik Sync 2.0.2

Drive Image 5.0

Retrospect Express Backup Upgrade

Retrospect Clients (10-user)

Retrospect Express 5.0

Partition Commander 6.0

Virtual Drive Personal 6.1

Norton Ghost 2002 (10-pack)

Virtual Back 2.0 Personal

PartitionMagic 7.0 5-user Kit Upgrade

Virtual Drive 6 (10-user License)

Drive Image 2002

PartitionMagic Pro 7.0 (5-pack)

Final Data Standard 1.0

Partition Commander 6.05

Retrospect Express 5.6

Final Data Standard Basic 1.0

PartitionMagic 7.0

Virtual Drive 6.0 Personal

Virtual Drive Network 6.1 (10-user)

PerfectDisk 2000 Exchnge Combo Pack: 1 Server

PerfectDisk 2000 Server 4.0 (10 Pack Server)

Norton Cleansweep 2002 6.0

Undelete 2.0 Workstation Upgrade

Undelete 2.0 Server

Undelete 2.0 Server Upgrade

ARCserve Universal Client Agent Linux International Edition

ARCserve 7.0 Linux Tape Library Option

ARCserve 7.0 Backup Agent for Oracle

BrightStor ARCserve Universal Client Agent for Linux

GoBack 3.0 Deluxe

Norton Ghost 2002 7.0

ARCserve/open R2.2 Media Kit Upgrade

DriveCopy 4.0

Novanet 8.5 SE

tempwatch-1.0.tgz - temporary file auditing tool

System Commander 7.0

Novanet 8.5 Unlimited

Connectix Copy Agent

Retrospect Workgroup Backup 4.3 (20-user)

Retrospect Server Backup 5.0

Quark Copy Desk SE

Hard Disk Toolkit 4.5 (100-user)

Rewind - to Recover or Return to Previous Program (Single Pack-Acad)

Retrospect Clients 5.6 (5-user)

Retrospect Clients 5.6 (10-user)

Retrospect Clients 5.6 (50-user)

Retrospect Clients 5.6 (100-user)

Retrospect Desktop Backup 4.3

Retrospect Workgroup 5.0

Retrospect Express 4.3

Retrospect Desktop 5.0

Undelete Utilities - Undelete Capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem {free to use but restricted}

jaZip - A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) and disks {free to use but restricted}

Wipe - Secure deletion of files from magnetic media. {GPL}

hdparm - Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the Linux hard disk drivers {freely distributable}

Rio (RAM I/O) for FreeBSD - An implementation of the Rio file cache project {BSL}

mkl - Creates and prints labels for use with CD-Rs {GPL}

Applications and Utilities

p5-Quota-1.3.3 - Perl module that provides access to filesystem quotas

ruby-quota-0.5.1 - A Ruby library to manipulate filesystem quotas

Drvalid.C - Benignly validate disk drives {oss}

Getdcwd.C - Get current working directory for any given drive {oss,msdos}

Iscdrom.C - Determine if a given drive is a CD-ROM {oss,msdos}

Isnetdr.C - Determine is a drive is local or remote {oss,msdos}

Isramdsk.C - Determine if a drive is a RAM disk {oss,msdos}

Iswprot.C - Determine is a floppy is write protected {oss,msdos}

Isshare.C - Determine if file sharing is enabled {oss}

Absdiskc.C,Hugeread.C,Absdisk.Asm,Disk_Sn.H, Disk_Sn.C,Snpdskio.H, Dos5Boot.H, - Bob Stout's direct disk I/O functions {oss}

Getvol.C - Retrieve a disk volume label {oss}

Setvol.C - Set, change, or kill a disk volume label {oss}

Libraries and Functions

(The following links to subjects at this site retain your personalized selections.)

Specific Types of File Systems - Specific forms of file systems. DFS, NFS, MS-DOS, etc.

See also: File System Information - Obtaining information of the filesystem as a whole. Status of disk subsystems, capacity, etc.

Up to File System Access - Gateway topic to file system (files and directory) access and operations.

freshmeat.net : Topic : System : Archiving : Backup

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/utils/disk-management/ - Tools for managing hard and floppy disk partitions