The sys-block category contains packages which work with block devices.
| afacli | Dell AACRAID-based PERC RAID controller management tool |
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| aoetools | tools for ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network storage protocol |
| arcconf | Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility |
| blktrace | btrace can show detailed info about what is happening on a block device io queue |
| blocks | Conversion tools for block devices |
| buffer | a tapedrive tool for speeding up reading from and writing to tape |
| cec | Coraid Ethernet Console client |
| dellmgr | Dell PERC 2/3/4 RAID controller management tool |
| devio | correctly read (or write) a region of a block device |
| di | Disk Information Utility |
| disktype | Detect the content format of a disk or disk image |
| eject-bsd | eject command for FreeBSD systems |
| endpoint | Endpoint turns a Linux machine with one or more firewire cards into an SBP-2 device |
| f3 | Utilities to detect broken or counterfeit flash storage |
| fio | Jens Axboe's Flexible IO tester |
| flashbench | Tool for benchmarking and classifying flash memory drives |
| fwdl | Seagate Fibre-Channel disk firmware upgrade tool |
| gpart | Partition table rescue/guessing tool |
| gparted | Gnome Partition Editor |
| hdrecover | Attempts to recover a hard disk that has bad blocks on it |
| hpacucli | HP Array Configuration Utility Command Line Interface (HPACUCLI, formerly CPQACUXE) |
| hpssacli | HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA) CLI (HPSSACLI, formerly HPACUCLI) |
| iscsitarget | Open Source iSCSI target with professional features |
| kvpm | KDE frontend for Linux LVM2 and GNU parted |
| lsiutil | LSI Logic Fusion MPT Command Line Interface management tool |
| mbuffer | M(easuring)buffer is a replacement for buffer with additional functionality |
| megacli | LSI Logic MegaRAID Command Line Interface management tool |
| megactl | LSI MegaRAID control utility |
| megamgr | LSI Logic MegaRAID Text User Interface management tool |
| megarc | LSI Logic MegaRAID Text User Interface management tool |
| mpt-status | Query tool to access the running configuration and status of LSI SCSI HBAs |
| ms-sys | A command-line program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records |
| mtx | Utilities for controlling SCSI media changers and tape drives |
| nbd | Userland client/server for kernel network block device |
| noflushd | A daemon to spin down your disks and force accesses to be cached |
| nwutil | Netwinder hardware utilities |
| open-iscsi | A performant, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 |
| open-isns | iSNS server and client for Linux |
| parted | Create, destroy, resize, check, copy partitions and file systems |
| partimage | Console-based application to efficiently save raw partition data to an image file |
| partitionmanager | KDE utility for management of partitions and file systems |
| qla-fc-firmware | QLogic Linux Fibre Channel HBA Firmware for ql2xxx cards |
| raid-check | Script to do "scrubbing" on software RAID systems |
| rts5229 | PCIE RTS5229 card reader driver for Linux |
| rts_pstor | PCIE RTS5209 card reader driver for Linux |
| sas2ircu | LSI MPT-SAS2 controller management tool |
| sas3ircu | LSI MPT-SAS3 controller management tool |
| scsiadd | Add and remove SCSI devices from your Linux system during runtime |
| scsiping | SCSIPing pings a host on the SCSI-chain |
| scsirastools | Serviceability for SCSI Disks and Arrays |
| sedutil | The Drive Trust Alliance Self Encrypting Drive Utility |
| seekwatcher | generates graphs from blktrace to help visualize IO patterns and performance |
| smp_utils | Utilities for SAS management protocol (SMP) |
| spindown | Spindown is a daemon that can spin down idle disks |
| storcli | MegaRAID StorCLI (successor of the MegaCLI) |
| tapecat | tapecat is a tape utility used to describe the physical content of a tape |
| targetcli | CLI and shell for the Linux SCSI target |
| targetcli-fb | Command shell for managing Linux LIO kernel target |
| tgt | Linux SCSI target framework (tgt) |
| thin-provisioning-tools | A suite of tools for thin provisioning on Linux |
| tw_cli | 3ware SATA/PATA/SAS RAID controller Command Line Interface tool |
| vblade | vblade exports a block device using AoE |
| viaideinfo | Query VIA IDE controllers for various information |
| whdd | Diagnostic and recovery tool for block devices |
| zram-init | Scripts to support compressed swap devices or ramdisks with zram |