util-linux
Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It contains the following programs: addpart, agetty, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chfn, chkdupexe, chrt, chsh, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, delpart, display-services, dmesg, elvtune, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, flock, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, halt, hexdump, hwclock, initctl, ionice, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, last, line, logger, login, look, losetup, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, need, newgrp, partx, pg, pivot_root, provide, ramsize, raw, rdev, readprofile, reboot, rename, renice, reset, rev, rootflags, script, scriptreplay, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, shutdown, simpleinit, swapoff, swapon, taskset, tailf, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode, vipw, wall, whereis, and write.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 16 Dec 2012 18:38
Release Notes: Various minor bugs were fixed.
- 05 Sep 2012 21:33
Release Notes: "su" was merged from coreutils, "sulogin" and "utmpdump" were merged from sysvinit, and "eject" was merged from inactive upstream. "lslocks" was added as a new implementation to replace the unmaintained "lslk". "wdctl" was added for monitoring hardware watchdog status. Many new features and command line flags were added. Several features were deprecated.
- 20 Aug 2012 21:58
Release Notes: Many enhancements and bug fixes were made. Several tools were added and several removed.
- 05 Mar 2006 19:04
Release Notes: mount defaults to CIFS instead of SMBFS for sources starting with //. There are flock documentation updates. There is a new translation (id) and updated translations (de, it, sl, and uk).
- 17 Nov 2005 14:44
Release Notes: getopt has been updated to 1.1.4. All *llseek variants have been replaced with lseek. There are miscellaneous build system, code, and documentation cleanups and fixes. The French and Italian translations have been updated.
Recent comments
Who maintains this? There's a bug that's been annoying me for years. fdisk calculates the last cylinder wrongly (is one short of the real one)
is this the right place for a feature request?
i'd like to have an option for 'column' not to ignore empty lines but just print them..
Re: Mailing list
Ohh..
Mailing list
Does anyone know how to subscribe to util-linux@math.uio.do... mailing-list ? Is there any web-archive ?
Re: util-linux
> Site is still down. Any body want to
> provide a mirror ?
> i would provide a mirror if i could
> get the package.
The site isn't/wasn't down, some clients (mostly browsers) don't follow symlinks properly.
not-available
13 Jun 1998 02:54
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