sdcv is simple text-based utility for work with dictionaries in StarDict's format.

CMUdict (the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary) is a free pronouncing dictionary of English, suitable for uses in speech technology and is maintained by the Speech Group in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

This is a client for the remote diffoscope service.

Diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It recursively unpacks archives of many kinds and transforms various binary formats into more human readable forms to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDFs just as easily.

Results are displayed by default, stored as local text or html files, or made available via a URL on https://try.diffoscope.org. Results stored on the server are purged after 30 days.

Diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It recursively unpacks archives of many kinds and transforms various binary formats into more human readable forms to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDFs just as easily.

Diffoscope has many optional dependencies; diffoscope --list-missing-tools guix will display optional packages to install.

Reprotest builds the same source code twice in different environments, and then checks the binaries produced by each build for differences. If any are found, then diffoscope or diff is used to display them in detail for later analysis.

xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. It works at speeds close to RAM limits, and comes in both 32- and 64-bit flavours. The code is highly portable, and hashes of the same length are identical on all platforms (both big and little endian).

This package provides a portable hash function and random number generator suitable for use in data structures. Provided by default in Zig, V, and Nim programming language standard libraries.

This package provides Python bindings for the xxHash hash algorithm.

This package provides parted bindings for Python.

GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partition scheme.

Sdparm reads and modifies SCSI device parameters. These devices can be SCSI disks, in which case the role of sdparm is similar to its namesake: the hdparm utility originally designed for ATA disks. However, sdparm can be used to access parameters on any device that uses a SCSI command set. Such devices include CD/DVD drives (irrespective of transport), SCSI and ATAPI tape drives, and SCSI enclosures. This utility can also send commands associated with starting and stopping the media, loading and unloading removable media and some other housekeeping functions.

hdparm is a command-line utility to control ATA controllers and disk drives. It can increase performance and/or reliability by careful tuning of hardware settings like power and acoustic management, DMA modes, and caching. It can also display detailed device information, or be used as a simple performance benchmarking tool.

hdparm provides a command line interface to various Linux kernel interfaces provided by the SATA/ATA/SAS libata subsystem, and the older IDE driver subsystem. Many external USB drive enclosures with SCSI-ATA Command Translation (SAT) are also supported.

F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive). F3 writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you haven't been sold a card with a smaller capacity than stated.

Idle3-tools provides a utility to get, set, or disable the Idle3 timer present in many Western Digital hard drives. This timer is part of the "IntelliPark" feature that stops the disk when not in use. Unfortunately, the default timer setting is not well suited to Linux or other *nix systems, and can dramatically shorten the lifespan of the drive if left unchecked.

GNU ddrescue is a fully automated data recovery tool. It copies data from one file to another, working to rescue data in case of read errors. The program also includes a tool for manipulating its log files, which are used to recover data more efficiently by only reading the necessary blocks.

fff (fast file-manager) is a simple, blazing fast and minimal file manager for Linux, written in bash. It only requires bash and coreutils, and its highly optimized now for efficient performance.

This package provides a statically-linked fsck.fat and a fsck.vfat compatibility symlink for use in an initrd.

findimagedupes compares a list of files for visual similarity.

This package provides parted bindings for Python.

Wipe can erase files and block devices securely. To work properly it relies on several assumptions like having the block device write the correct sectors, etc. For files it also doesn't work on log-structured file systems such as F2FS, JFFS, LogFS, etc. You should not trust wipe to work as advertised until you have manually verified that all its assumption hold true on your system. To overwrite data it uses the Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that is seeded with /dev/urandom or, if unavailable, /dev/random.

The dosfstools package includes the mkfs.fat and fsck.fat utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT file systems.

This package provides a library for manipulating storage volume encryption keys and storing them separately from volumes to handle forgotten passphrases.

mmc-utils is a command-line tool for configuring and inspecting MMC storage devices from userspace.

libblockdev is a C library supporting GObject introspection for manipulation of block devices. It has a plugin-based architecture where each technology (like LVM, Btrfs, MD RAID, Swap...) is implemented in a separate plugin, possibly with multiple implementations (e.g. using LVM CLI or the new LVM D-Bus API).