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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">util-linux</th></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2.41.1<a href="#cite_note-wikidata-aa3dd4ad88dd52773ffcbf3ca2d8eccab09f9754-v20-1">[1]</a>

/ 24 June 2025 (24 June 2025)</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">31 languages, 7 full translations<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Utility software</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Portions variously under <a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (v2+ or v2 only), <a href="GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> (v2+) and <a href="BSD_License" class="mw-redirect" title="BSD License">BSD License</a>.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/">www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git">git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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</style>util-linux is a package of <a href="Software_utility" class="mw-redirect" title="Software utility">utilities</a> distributed by the <a href="Linux_Kernel_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Linux Kernel Organization">Linux Kernel Organization</a> for use in a <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> <a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>. A <a href="Fork_(software_development)" title="Fork (software development)">fork</a>, util-linux-ng (with ng meaning "next generation"), was created when development stalled,<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> but as of January 2011 has been renamed back to util-linux, and is the official version of the package.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

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The package includes the following utilities:

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<ul><li>addpart</li>

<li><a href="Getty_(Unix)" class="mw-redirect" title="Getty (Unix)">agetty</a></li>

<li>blkdiscard<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></li>

<li><a href="Blkid" class="mw-redirect" title="Blkid">blkid</a></li>

<li>blkzone</li>

<li>blockdev</li>

<li><a href="Cfdisk" title="Cfdisk">cfdisk</a></li>

<li>chcpu</li>

<li>chmem</li>

<li>choom</li>

<li>col (legacy)<a href="#cite_note-legacy-7">[7]</a></li>

<li>colcrt</li>

<li>colrm</li>

<li>column</li>

<li>ctrlaltdel</li>

<li>delpart</li>

<li><a href="Dmesg" title="Dmesg">dmesg</a></li>

<li>eject</li>

<li>fallocate</li>

<li><a href="Fdformat" title="Fdformat">fdformat</a></li>

<li><a href="Fdisk" title="Fdisk">fdisk</a></li>

<li>fincore</li>

<li>findfs</li>

<li>findmnt</li>

<li><a href="File_locking" title="File locking">flock</a></li>

<li><a href="Fsck" title="Fsck">fsck</a>.<a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Fsck" title="Fsck">fsck</a>.<a href="MINIX_file_system" title="MINIX file system">minix</a></li>

<li>fsfreeze</li>

<li>fstrim</li>

<li><a href="Getopt" title="Getopt">getopt</a></li>

<li>hardlink</li>

<li><a href="Hex_dump#od_and_hexdump" title="Hex dump">hexdump</a></li>

<li>hwclock<a href="#cite_note-8">[a]</a></li>

<li><a href="Ionice" class="mw-redirect" title="Ionice">ionice</a></li>

<li>ipcmk</li>

<li><a href="Ipcrm" title="Ipcrm">ipcrm</a></li>

<li>irqtop<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a></li>

<li>isosize</li>

<li>ldattach</li>

<li>line (legacy)<a href="#cite_note-legacy-7">[7]</a></li>

<li>logger</li>

<li>login</li>

<li><a href="Losetup" class="mw-redirect" title="Losetup">losetup</a></li>

<li>lsblk</li>

<li>lscpu<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a></li>

<li>lsipc</li>

<li>lsirq<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a></li>

<li>lslocks</li>

<li>lslogins</li>

<li>lsmem</li>

<li>mcookie</li>

<li><a href="Mkfs" title="Mkfs">mkfs</a> (legacy)<a href="#cite_note-legacy-7">[7]</a></li>

<li><a href="Mkfs" title="Mkfs">mkfs</a>.<a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Mkfs" title="Mkfs">mkfs</a>.<a href="MINIX_file_system" title="MINIX file system">minix</a></li>

<li>mkswap</li>

<li><a href="Mount_(Unix)" title="Mount (Unix)">mount</a></li>

<li>mountpoint</li>

<li>namei</li>

<li>newgrp</li>

<li>nologin</li>

<li>nsenter</li>

<li>partx</li>

<li><a href="Pg_(Unix)" title="Pg (Unix)">pg</a> (legacy)<a href="#cite_note-legacy-7">[7]</a></li>

<li>pivot_root</li>

<li>prlimit<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a></li>

<li>readprofile</li>

<li>rename</li>

<li><a href="Nice_(Unix)" title="Nice (Unix)">renice</a></li>

<li>reset (legacy)<a href="#cite_note-legacy-7">[7]</a></li>

<li>resizepart</li>

<li>rfkill</li>

<li><a href="RTC_Alarm" class="mw-redirect" title="RTC Alarm">rtcwake</a></li>

<li>runuser</li>

<li><a href="Script_(Unix)" title="Script (Unix)">script</a></li>

<li>scriptlive</li>

<li>scriptreplay</li>

<li>setarch<a href="#cite_note-14">[c]</a></li>

<li>setpriv</li>

<li>setsid</li>

<li>setterm</li>

<li><a href="Sfdisk" title="Sfdisk">sfdisk</a></li>

<li>sulogin</li>

<li>swaplabel</li>

<li>swapoff</li>

<li>swapon</li>

<li>switch_root</li>

<li>taskset</li>

<li>tunelp (deprecated)<a href="#cite_note-15">[12]</a></li>

<li>umount</li>

<li>unshare</li>

<li>utmpdump</li>

<li>uuidd</li>

<li>uuidgen</li>

<li>uuidparse</li>

<li>wdctl</li>

<li><a href="Whereis" title="Whereis">whereis</a></li>

<li>wipefs</li>

<li><a href="Write_(Unix)" title="Write (Unix)">write</a></li>

<li>zramctl</li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Removed_content">Removed content</h2></div>

Utilities formerly included, but removed as of 1 July 2015:

<li>chkdupexe<a href="#cite_note-18">[14]</a></li>

<li>clock<a href="#cite_note-19">[15]</a></li>

<li>cytune<a href="#cite_note-20">[16]</a></li>

<li><a href="Ddate" class="mw-redirect" title="Ddate">ddate</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[e]</a></li>

<li>elvtune<a href="#cite_note-24">[19]</a></li>

<li>fastboot<a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>fasthalt<a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>initctl<a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>ramsize<a href="#cite_note-to-rdev-27">[f]</a></li>

<li>reboot<a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>rootflags<a href="#cite_note-to-rdev-27">[f]</a></li>

<li><a href="Shutdown_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shutdown (command)">shutdown</a><a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>simpleinit<a href="#cite_note-simpleinit-25">[20]</a></li>

<li>tailf<a href="#cite_note-tailf-28">[22]</a></li>

<li>vidmode<a href="#cite_note-to-rdev-27">[f]</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="BusyBox" title="BusyBox">BusyBox</a> – Collection of Unix tools in single executable file</li>

<li><a href="CUPS" title="CUPS">CUPS</a> – Computer printing system</li>

<li><a href="GNU_Core_Utilities" title="GNU Core Utilities">GNU Core Utilities</a> – Collection of standard, Unix-based utilities from GNU</li>

<li><a href="Toybox" title="Toybox">Toybox</a> – Collection of Unix tools in single executable file</li>

<li><a href="Uname" title="Uname">uname</a> – Standard UNIX utility that prints name and other details about the machine</li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> cquery and set the hardware clock (RTC)

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<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> modern replacement for <a href="Lsof" title="Lsof">lsof</a>

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<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> including architecture symlinks such as i386, linux32, linux64, x86_64, etc.

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<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> including symlink to vigr

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<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> removed from default build<a href="#cite_note-21">[17]</a> before being removed<a href="#cite_note-22">[18]</a> altogether

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<li id="cite_note-to-rdev-27">^ <a href="#cite_ref-to-rdev_27-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-to-rdev_27-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-to-rdev_27-2">c</a> formerly a symlink to rdev<a href="#cite_note-rdev-26">[21]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFSami_Kerola2012" class="citation web cs1">Sami Kerola (2012-10-08). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=4cf02b65109029a38f708148dea8d2bdf2fa19de">"ddate: remove from util-linux"</a>. util-linux. Retrieved 2015-07-01.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFSami_Kerola2013" class="citation web cs1">Sami Kerola (2013-08-17). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a272c5747c08495187d4f1b7fb1c9874af597b32">"build-sys: complete elvtune removal"</a>. util-linux. Retrieved 2015-07-01.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-simpleinit-25">^ <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-simpleinit_25-6">g</a> <cite id="CITEREFKarel_Zak2011" class="citation web cs1">Karel Zak (2011-06-08). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=0ff9e65ea30ee7e3548d11992a180d95d0a02fe9">"simpleinit: remove this deprecated set of utils"</a>. util-linux. Retrieved 2014-04-12.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-rdev-26">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rdev_26-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-rdev_26-1">b</a> <cite id="CITEREFKarel_Zak2010" class="citation web cs1">Karel Zak (2010-05-13). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f">"rdev: remove this deprecated command"</a>. util-linux. Retrieved 2014-04-12.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-tailf-28"><a href="#cite_ref-tailf_28-0">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFSami_Kerola2017" class="citation web cs1">Sami Kerola (2017-04-02). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg13779.html">"tailf: remove deprecated utility"</a>. util-linux.</cite>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/">The util-linux code repository.</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/">pub/linux/utils/util-linux</a> on <a href="Kernel.org" title="Kernel.org">Kernel.org</a></li>

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