Tools

System Tools and Utilities

GParted is a graphical partition editor which displays, checks, resizes, copies, moves, creates, formats, deletes, and modifies disk partitions.
Apart GTK is a GUI for partclone that allows you to clone your partitions to compressed image backups. You can quickly and easily recover them from those backups whenever you wish.
Partimage is a partition imaging utility. This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a single operation.
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image or Norton Ghost. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling smart data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives.
By using Hard Disk Sentinel Linux console edition, it is possible to examine the temperature and health information (and more) of IDE, S-ATA ,SATA II, SCSI and USB hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards.
GNU ddrescue can copy data from and to block devices just like the standard dd program and it is optimized to deal with disks with bad blocks.
Fsarchiver and partclone allows you to save and restore the contents of file systems to/from a compressed archive file. It needs to be run using the command line from the terminal.
Scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer definitions and extracts matching files from a set of image files or raw device files.
Ext4magic is a file carver (or file carving). It can be used when recovering from disasters or in digital forensics activities.
The cryptsetup command is available if you need to access Linux encrypted disks.
You can use ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to delete Android system apps and bloatware. The manual is located in the Documents folder.
Testdisk is a popular disk recovery software. It recovers lost partitions and repairs unbootable systems by repairing boot sectors. It can also be used to recover deleted files from FAT, NTFS and ext4 filesystems.
Hdparm is the tool to use when it comes to tuning your hard disk, but it can also measure read speed, deliver valuable information about the device, change important drive settings, and even erase SSDs securely.
Photorec is a data recovery software focused on lost files including video, photos, documents and archives.
Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols.
Nwipe, wipe and shred are available if you need to securely delete data.
You can use fdisk, gdisk and cfdisk to edit MBR and GPT partition tables from the terminal. sfdisk is a tool to save and restore partition tables to/from a file.
Run the memtester command if you want to test your system memory.
Curl and wget allow you to download files from the command line.
You can run lsblk and blkid in the terminal to identify block devices.
Xarchiver allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar, zip and lrzip formats are supported.
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) allows administrators to create meta devices that provide an abstraction layer between a file system and the physical storage that is used underneath. The meta devices (on which file systems are placed) are logical volumes, which use storage from storage pools called volume groups.
You can use e2fsprogs (utilities for ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems), btrfs-progs (userspace utilities to manage btrfs filesystems), and xfsdump, xfsprogs (utilities to manage xfs filesystems).
e2fsck is a file system consistency checker for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems commonly used in Linux-based operating systems. It examines the integrity of your VPS's file system, repairs any errors it discovers, and helps prevent data corruption or loss.
The Grub bootloader tools can be used if you need to repair the boot loader of your Linux distribution. You will need efibootmgr command if you want to change the definitions or the order of the UEFI boot entries on your computer.
Catfish is a nifty file searching GUI tool for Linux desktop. The interface is lightweight and simple and the tool allows you to refine your search with criteria like time, file type, etc.
The Grsync utility is very powerful for copying files either locally or remotely over an SSH connection.
USBImager is a simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups. Its interface is as simple as it gets, totally bloat-free.
You can use growpart in order to grow a partition so it uses all the space available on the block storage.
The chntpw command can be used to reset Windows passwords by accessing the disk where Windows is installed.
Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic source.
You can use graphical text editors such as Mousepad or text editors such as nano or vim from the terminal.