<sect2><title>Contents of Util-linux</title>

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<para>The Util-linux package contains a number of miscellaneous
utility programs. Some of the more prominent utilities are used
to mount, unmount, format, partition and manage disk drives,
open tty ports and fetch kernel messages.</para>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: agetty, arch, blockdev, cal,
cfdisk, chkdupexe, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate,
dmesg, elvtune, fdformat, fdisk, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, hexdump,
hwclock, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, line, logger, look, losetup, mcookie, mkfs,
mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, parse.bash,
parse.tcsh, pg, pivot_root, ramsize (link to rdev), raw, rdev, readprofile,
rename, renice, rev, rootflags (link to rdev), script, setfdprm, setsid,
setterm, sfdisk, swapoff (link to swapon), swapon, test.bash, test.tcsh,
tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode (link to rdev), whereis and write</para>

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