Related: back, CD, disc, drive, DVD, fdisk, file, /etc/fstab, hard, media, mount, part, store, UDF ====Manage PING.WindowsDream.com >>PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) -- Backup and Restore Disk Partitions CoreDump.Free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php Hules.Free.fr/wmhdplop >>wmhdplop is yet another dockapp for WindowMaker, or any windowmanager/desktop environment that handles dockapps (KDE has a dockbar extension, and gnome swallows). It monitors your hard-drives by sending visual stimuli to your cortex each time your /dev/hdx (or /dev/sdx) writes or reads anything. Try to launch openoffice and enjoy the wmhdplop show! (loading these kitties in mozilla also works). GUZU.net/linux/various.php >>IDEload monitor IDE controlers interrupts activity and general disks activity, and shows different histogram, as xload do. See README for more informations. GUZU.net/linux/e2retreive.php >>e2retrieve is a data recovery tool for Ext2 filesystem. This means that e2retrieve will not try to repair the filesystem but will extract data to "copy" it to another place (another disk, NFS, Samba, ...). GUZU.net/linux/hddtemp.php >>hddtemp is a small utility that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature). XDiskUsage.sf.net >>xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xdu written by Phillip C. Dykstra <dykstra at ieee dot org&gt. Changes have been made so it runs "du" for you, and can display the free space left on the disk, and produce a PostScript version of the display. ms-sys.sf.net >>This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written. CGSecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk >>TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. $ smartctl # smartmontools - control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. lde.sf.net >>lde is a disk editor for linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. DiskEditor.pasiz.net and DiskEditor.sf.net >>DiskEditor is aimed for expert users, to provide interface for modifying the disk in the fly. $ xdaf #X11 Disk Activity Feedback ezIX.org/project/wiki/Xdaf $ fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk $ gparted #GNOME partition editor $ gpart #Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions