FAQ SynoCliDisk

SynoCommunity CLI Disk package specific FAQ

The synocli-disk package provides some disk related tools to advanced Linux users.
Most of the tools must be run as privileged user (root) to work or to get access to related resources.

• e2fsprogs
  Ext2/3/4 filesystem userspace utilities. [GPL]

• fuse
  The reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface. [GPLv2, LGPLv2.1 (libfuse.so, libulockmgr.so)]

• TestDisk
  TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software. [GPLv2+]

• ncdu
  Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. [MIT]

• davfs2
  Mount a WebDAV resource as a regular file system. [GPLv3]

  Before you can mount webdav folders with davfs2, you have to execute once the following commands see issue #4466:

  Create links in /usr/sbin

  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/mount.davfs /usr/sbin/mount.davfs
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/umount.davfs /usr/sbin/umount.davfs
  

  Create the user davfs2:davfs2:

  sudo synouser --add davfs2 "" "" 0 "" 0
  sudo synogroup --add davfs2 davfs2
  

• lsscsi
  The lsscsi command lists information about SCSI devices in Linux. [GPLv2]

• dar
  DAR is a shell command that backs up from a single file to a whole filesystems, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc. Notes about the internals can be found here. [GPLv3]

• ddrescue
  GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. [GNU GPL]

• duf
  Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative. [MIT]

• gdu
  Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go. [MIT]

• dua
  A tool to conveniently learn about the disk usage of directories, fast! [MIT]

• dutree
  A tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust. [GPLv3]

• tdu
  Top Disk Usage. You want to know what is using all your disk space? This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path. It displays a sorted list of the biggest items. The estimation method is similar to the 'du -skx' command from GNU Coreutils package. [GPLv2]

• s3backer
  s3backer is a FUSE/NBD single file backing store via Amazon S3. You can find a demo on how to use s3backer on s3backer wiki. [GPLv2]

• smartmontools
  smartmontools contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART).
  When you call smartctl you will get the older version of Synology DSM. To call smartctl of this package, you can call smartctl7 (or /usr/local/bin/smartctl or /var/packages/synocli-disk/target/sbin/smartctl).
  To update the device database call update-smart-drivedb. [GPLv2]