Programs: disk management
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Partition, and Volume-Manager notes.
disk health monitoring
| smartctl | check HDD's SMART info, assessment of disk health |
unix
| dd | manage/copy files (primarily used for disks/devices) |
bsd
| gpart | partition disks with gpt |
| glabel | set mountable labels on partitions |
| zfs | very flexible volume-manager/partition-manager supporting snapshots, copy-on-write, etc. |
linux
| fdisk | create mbr/gpt partitions on linux |
| gdisk | create gpt partitions on linux |
| cfdisk | Ncurses partition management |
