Util-linux

util-linux is a package of programs provided by the Linux kernel group, and is accordingly included in most if not all Linux distributions.

It contains user programs of several kinds:

• Text utilities colcrt column line ul hexdump pg rev colrm col more tailf
• miscellaneous utilities rename namei uuidgen look mcookie logger cal getopt whereis kill unshare renice rlimit fallocate eject ipcrm flock nsenter mountpoint dmesg setsid lscpu ipcmk lsipc ipcs setpriv chrt ionice taskset
• Login utilities su login lastb utmpdump lslogins runuser chsh last chfn newgrp
• Terminal utilitites setterm wall mesg script scriptreplay reset write

It also contains administrative commands of several kinds:

• Miscellaneous: wipefs lsblk uuidd blkid findfs findmnt
• System utilities: hwclock umount fstrim rtcwake x86_64 chcpu zramctl setarch lsns i386 swapoff swapon linux64 wdctl blkdiscard switch_root fsfreeze tunelp ldattach ctrlaltdel pivot_root readprofile linux32 losetup uname26 mount
• Disk utilities: vipw vigr nologin sulogin isosize fsck partx mkfs.minix sfdisk cfdisk delpart fdisk fsck.cramfs swaplabel mkfs.bfs fsck.minix raw mkswap addpart fdformat resizepart blockdev mkfs mkfs.cramfs agetty

See Also

• [util-linux page]