Disk Utilities
cdrecord - burn CD-Rs on any platform Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. Supports all SCSI, IDE/ATAPI, and parallel port drives. Supports Linux, Win32, Unix, Macintosh, more. Burn audio, data, or mixed mode CDs. Open source (Jun 2000)
CFloppyDisk - direct access to disk sectors CFloppyDisk is a class that allows you to read and write physical floppy disk sectors directly. Static member functions for resetting the floppy disk controller, for reading a physical sector and for writing a physical sector [Win 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP] (Feb 2002)
libferris - virtual filesystem with C++ interface libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to present metadata. Supports XML. Linux only (Sep 2002)
parted - GNU hard disk partition editor GNU parted allows you to create, destroy, resize and copy partitions. It currently supports ext2 and FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) filesystems and Linux swap devices, and MS-DOS disk labels. Freeware (Jan 2000)
WebCDWriter - burn CDs from your browser webCDwriter makes a single CD-writer available to all users in your network. It consists of the: CDWserver, Java applets webCDcreator, and command-line tool rcdrecord. Server needs Linux. Open Source. (Apr 2001)
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