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- BleachBit
- Bleachbit frees disk space and maintains privacy. It wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, and APT. Excellent multilingual support - available in 30+ languages. Latest release is 0.73, 2010-02-18.
- Clonezilla
- An intelligent partition or disk-cloning program that works on any filesystem. Latest release is 1.2.3-10, 2009-11-13.
- DiskDrake
- A Mandriva graphical utility to simplify hard disk partitioning.
- Exabyte Tape Drive - Integrating into a Linux System
- Information for integrating Exabyte MammothTape, 8mm, 4mm, and Travan tape drives into a Linux workstation.
- Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
- An excellent technical paper on the failure pattern of disc drives and the key factors that affect their longevity. In PDF format. (2007)
- GNU parted
- A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
- GParted
- A GNOME partition editor which includes a small, fast, Slackware-based live CD that syncs its releases with GParted. Latest release is 0.5.0, 2009-12-02.
- IDE Drives - Gary J. Murakami
- Table of current IDE hard drives of capacity greater than 40MB.
- Linux Raid
- A community-managed reference for Linux software raid as implemented in the latest kernel.
- Linux SATA RAID FAQ
- This document discusses SATA RAID controllers and how to differentiate true hardware RAID controllers from the software RAID controllers. (2008)
- LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Linux Partitions: A Primer - Hard Drive Basics
- Contains basic information on Linux partitions; information is still relevant. (2002)
- Partition Image for Linux
- A Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many file formats (including ext2fs/ext3fs, ReiserFS, JFS) to an image file. Also available in French. Latest stable release is 0.6.8, 20009-09-24.
- QtParted
- A Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit. Latest stable release is 0.4.5, 2005-08-12. Site also available in French.
- RAID and Data Protection Solutions for Linux
- Offers the following information: types of data loss, Linux RAID solutions, related data storage protection technologies, diagnostic and monitoring tools, disc array management software, and hardware RAID controllers; last updated 2003-08.
- SCSI Media Changer and Backup Device Control System
- A set of low level driver programs to control features of SCSI backup-related devices such as autoloaders, tape changers, media jukeboxes, and tape drives.
- SCSIAdd
- A command line application to add and remove SCSI devices from the Linux SCSI subsystem on the fly. Latest version is 1.96, 2008-01-08.
- Serial ATA (SATA) Linux Status Report
- An excellent resource for Linux-compatible SATA drives; includes information on hardware and vendor support. For driver status information see http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html.
- The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO
- Description of the SCSI subsystem, with an external view of the SCSI subsystem as the main theme; includes material to assist with the administration of the Linux SCSI subsystem. (2004) (There have been no updates since 2004.)
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