Free filesystems software for linux

FileSystem Investigator is a platform independent file system viewer and data extraction tool. It allows the user to:

* View the contents of the target file system in a forensicly safe manner, bypassing the normal operating system mechanisms.
* Extract files and whole directory trees of files from the source filesystem.

Since it is written in platform-neutral Java, it can be used to examine filesystems outside their native environment. For example, it can be used to view a Linux filesystem while running under Windows.

FileSystem Investigator directly accesses the source disk and processes the data using it own built in filesystem drivers. This ensures that it is safe to use FileSystem Investigator for forensic investigations.

FileSystem Investigator will never write to the source media thus important timestamps are preserved. FileSystem Investigator can also read disk-image files such as those created by dd.

Files and whole directory structures can be extracted easily from the source drive and stored for further use or analysis. Due to limitations imposed by Java, special files such as device nodes, pipes, sockets and links, cannot be extracted.

sshfs is a rox-filer Application Directory. Its purpose is to deal with sshfs for mounting and unmounting them. sshfs is a fuse system to mount filesystems over ssh

This application depends only on fuse and sshfs.

Usage:

You have to create some directories wich name will handle every needed informations for the mount. In rox-filer when you do a right click on thoses directories you have a menu entry that will allow you to mount and unmount the filesystem.

The directory name is of the form :

[user@]host[[:port]:remote_path]

Installation:

Extract to your application directory (eg: ~/Apps)
Create a link in your SendTo directory (eg: ~/.choice/SendTo) for directories and mounts:

ln -s ~/Apps/sshfs ~/.choice/SendTo/.inode_directory/
ln -s ~/Apps/sshfs ~/.choice/SendTo/.inode_mount-point/
or via the Customize menu entry.

This will associate the sshfs menu to directories in rox-filer

zisofs filesystem is an extension to the ISO9660 filesystem that allows files, on a file-by-file basis, to be stored compressed and decompressed in real time.
The zisofs filesystem is supported by recent versions of Linux (2.4.14 or later).
Legacy systems can still read uncompressed files. zisofs-tools contains the tools necessary to create such a compressed ISO9660 filesystem and to read compressed files on a legacy system.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes the --sloppy option, which was documented but did not work.

Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that helps visualize disk usage on your computer.

It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see not only which directories take up all your space, but which directories and files inside those directories are the real culprits.

Remote Filesystems

If you want to have a filelight-style map prerendered at set times during the week, and then controlled in a web browser, take a look at Philesight, an excellent utilty that is also open source.

You can also browser remote servers using the fish:// or ftp:// KIO slave inside FIlelight, but for a system administrator I think philesight is more useful, check it out.

Installing From Source

You should be able to just copy and paste the following into a terminal:

cd ~
wget http://methylblue.com/filelight/packages/filelight-1.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf filelight-1.0.tar.bz2
cd filelight-1.0
./configure --disable-debug && make
su -c make install

Glossy_Project is a complete system set for KDE. I have assembled this set from icons by Everaldo, Louie Mantia and an unknown artist here on Deviantart who created the Dossier icon that I used for a template to create all of the filesystems icons. I used Louie Mantias mimetype icons as a template.
I created this set because there are no iconsets for KDE to my liking. I hope everyone enjoys this set and I give all credit to the great artists who made most of these icons.
To install this set:
1. download the zip file
2. extraxt the zip file
3. cd into the Glossy_Crystal folder
4. open a terminal there
5. run ./buildset
6. get a beer
7. Install the icon theme in KDE Control Panel
8. Enjoy
Enhancements:
- Added Baghira sidebar icons
- Added choice of Trash icons...before building set go to the filesystems folder, rename trashcan_empty to trashcan_empty1, rename trashcan_full to trashcan_full1, pick the Trashcan set you like and remove the number from the name then run ./buildset

Ytree project is a (curses-based) file manager similar to DOS Xtree.
It was made for browsing filesystems and archives (RAR/SPM/RPM/TAR/ARC/LHA/ZIP/ZOO).
Ytree is reported to run on following platforms:
SYSV R3.2/R4
Interactive UNIX
Linux V2.2
NeXTstep 2.1
Irix 5.2
AIX 3.2
HPUX
SUNOS 4.1 / Solaris 2
ULTRIX 4.3
DEC-UNIX / OSF1
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD
QNX
Mac OS X
Building:
In most instances, it should be sufficient to uncomment the section for your platform in Makefile (Default is linux). Type make followed by make install. If you want, customize ytree by editing $HOME/.ytree.
Enhancements:
- NetBSD support. (Thanks to Martynas Venckus)