man linHDD (Commandes) - GTK+ frontend for cfdisk/df/hdparm/mkfs
NAME
LINHDD - GTK+ frontend for cfdisk/df/hdparm/mkfs
SYNOPSIS
linHDD
DESCRIPTION
For those a bit weary of the commandline, perhaps a bit miffed by big problems caused by little typos - but mostly for the many newcomers that have yet to memorize the multitude of wondrous console-based commands, I give you this tool to ease your life just a little bit.
The initial release only deals with ide hard drives, no scsi/sata - only because I don't have the board/drive(s) to test them with. Should be a simple matter of adding cat /proc/scsi/scsi stuff. But if I can't test it then I cannot, in good conscious, write it.
linHDD acts as a fontend for some basic Linux tools, which should all be on your machine already. hdparm gives the detailed drive information shown in the large textbox. Also enables testing the HDD read speed in MB/s. df, (which lists mounted devices), mkfs and its relatives for formatting (supporting ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs - if they are supported on your machine.) And cfdisk pops up if you choose to partition a drive. For safety and sanity I designed linHDD so that it will not allow any partitioning on a mounted Hard Drive. Nor will it allow formatting on a mounted partition. And lastly, ANY partitioning or formatting must be done as root.
The program allows any user to view drive space and detailed HDD information, as well as run a read-speed test on any drive.
OPTIONS
LINHDD has no options.
SEE ALSO
Website <http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/linHDD.html>
AUTHOR
LINHDD was written by Paul Sherman <psherma1@rochester.rr.com>.
This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).