Top 15 Dosfstools Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs (aka mkfs.dos and mkfs.vfat) and dosfsck (aka fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat) utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.

1. Makebootfat

Makebootfat This utility creates a bootable FAT filesystem and populates it with files and boot tools. It is mainly designed to create bootable USB and Fixed disk for the AdvanceCD project.......

2. Mtools

Mtools Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools can now handle the long filenames of Windows......

3. flip

flip Do newline conversions between **IX and MS-DOS.......

4. PC DOS

PC DOS IBM PC DOS (Acronym for International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer Disk Operating System) was an operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s. Before version 6.1, PC DOS was an IBM-branded version of MS-DOS. For versions 6.1 and later,......

5. MacDrive

MacDrive Whether youre on a Windows PC or a Mac running Windows, sharing files on disks is no longer a hassle. MacDrive for Windows takes all the guess work out disk accessibility. With MacDrive installed, your Windows computer now speaks Mac and you can access all types of Mac-formatted disks -......

6. procps

procps procps is the package that has a bunch of small useful utilities that give information about processes using the /proc filesystem. The package includes the programs ps, top, vmstat, w, kill, free, slabtop, and skill.......

7. Lustre

Lustre Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data.Lustre is mature and open source (GPL2), running stably in production at many hundreds of sites around the world. Eight of the top ten and 70% of the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world rely on Lustre for their......

8. DBGL

DBGL DBGL is a Java frontend for DOSBox, based largely upon the proven interface of D-Fend.DBGL serves as a frontend / Graphical User Interface to DOSBox (configuration). It tries to make creating DOSBox configuration files a little easier by offering a (relatively) simple interface, some shortcuts and a little bit of......

9. PSmisc

PSmisc This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem. We're not about changing the world, but providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks. There is options for using SELinux if you need it and fuser understands IPv6. It also speaks......

10. D-Box

D-Box D-Box is an easy to use front-end for DOSBox which enables you to run old MS-DOS games and other applications on a modern computer.......

11. IOzone

IOzone IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read,......

12. GNU fdisk

GNU fdisk fdisk is a command-line utility that provides disk partitioning functions. It includes an ncurses disk partitioning utility called "cfdisk".......

13. Quobyte

Quobyte Quobyte is a complete software storage solution for reliable and scalable storage infrastructures. It turns commodity hardware into a data center file system that enables warehouse-scale storage infrastructures without compromising operations. Focused on delivering high-performance for all workloads, Quobyte is production-ready and very user-friendly with built-in management tools that enable......

14. fio

fio fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.fio can work on either of block devices or files and accepts......

15. SQLIO

SQLIO SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.......