Second extended file system management tools
The e2fsprogs package consists of a lot of tools for users to create, check, modify, and correct any inconsistencies in second extended file system.
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kiwi-tools package contains some helper tools,which is used for the kiwi created initial ramdisk used to control the very first boot of an appliance.
GPT fdisk(consisting of the gdisk,sgdisk,cgdisk) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools
GPT fdisk(consisting of the gdisk,sgdisk,cgdisk) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools. rather than on the older MBR partition tables.
Modules used to build custom grub.efi images
%{desc} This subpackage provides support for rebuilding your own grub.efi.
The GNU disk partition manipulation program
The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
lvm2 refers to the userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux.
QEMU command line tool for manipulating disk images
This package provides a command line tool for manipulating disk images
A software package manager that manages packages on Linux distributions.
DNF is a software package manager that installs, updates, and removespackages on RPM-based Linux distributions. It automatically computes dependencies and determines the actions required to install packages.DNF also makes it easier to maintain groups of machines, eliminating the need to manually update each one using rpm.
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses either gzip/xz/lzo/lz4/zstd compression to compress both files, inodes and directories.
The dosfstools package contains programs mkfs.fat, fsck.fat and fatlabel to create, check and label FAT family file systems.
Tools to manage multipath devices with the device-mapper
This package provides the multipath tool and the multipathd daemon to manage dm-multipath devices. multipath can detect and set up multipath maps. multipathd sets up multipath maps automatically, monitors path devices for failure, removal, or addition, and applies the necessary changes to the multipath maps to ensure continuous availability of the map devices.
Rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
The Syslinux Project covers lightweight bootloaders for MS-DOS FAT filesystems (SYSLINUX), network booting (PXELINUX), bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX), and Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 or btrfs filesystems (EXTLINUX). The project also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems (such as DOS) from nontraditional media; it is usually used in conjunction with PXELINUX and ISOLINUX.
Modules used to build custom grub images
Utility that allows users to manage packages on their systems.\ It supports RPMs, modules and comps groups & environments.
An organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data
GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored.
This metapackage installs the necessary system dependencies to run KIWI.
Collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks
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) In addition to file access, it supports many FAT-specific features: volume labels, FAT-specific file attributes (hidden, system, ...), "bad block" map maintenance, access to remote floppy drives, Iomega ZIP disk protection, "secure" erase, display of file's on-disk layout, etc