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This is a list of commands from the GNU Core Utilities for Unix environments. These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. GNU Core Utilities include basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities. Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are expected in a POSIX system.
The NVM Express command set has a generic Dataset Management command set, for hinting the host's intent to the storage device on a set of block ranges. One of its operations, DEALLOCATE performs trim. It also has a WRITE ZEROES command that provides a DEALLOCATE hint and allows the disk to trim and return zeroes.
GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks. [3] It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12). [4] An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project. Disks used to be known as GNOME Disk Utility or palimpsest Disk Utility. Udisks was named DeviceKit-disks in ...
The name is derived from the md (multiple device) device nodes it administers or manages, and it replaced a previous utility mdctl. [citation needed] The original name was "Mirror Disk", but was changed as more functions were added. [citation needed] The name is now understood to be short for Multiple Disk and Device Management. [3]
MS-DOS command prompt with drive letter C as part of the current working directory. File Manager displaying the contents of drive C.. In computer data storage, drive letter assignment is the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to volumes.
In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel.Most modern Linux distributions are LVM-aware to the point of being able to have their root file systems on a logical volume.
hdparm is a command line program for Linux to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters and test performance. [2] [3] It can set parameters such as drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic management, and DMA settings. GParted [citation needed] and Parted Magic both include hdparm. [4]
Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives. [1] [3] [4]