11-11-2008
While there may be GUIS for the things you are requesting, please don't take this the wrong way, you are going about this wrong.
You may want "Windows, but free". This is not Windows. Your time is also not free.
If you want to do this, a better way would be to not look for an analog of the tool you used, but to figure out what tasks you wish to accomplish, and then find the tools to do that.
Hard drive names are not really important in *NIX. On Linux, the names are usually something like:
sda or hda then sdb, or hdb, depending on the type of system. sda is for serial/scsi devices and hda is for old parallel ATA
However, in most cases you will be abstracting those to mount points or to logical volume groups.
Also, depending on the Linux distribution, the tools are slightly different.
vmstat will give you some information on memory, but the best tools I have found exist on SUSE systems where you can use hwinfo.
the "free" command will also give you info on memory, utilization of it, as well as swap.
For a process list, ps aux or ps -ef will give you a list, however not like on windows.
pstree will show you how they are connected to each other as parent/children.
Basically, the things you are looking for don't really exist in the same analogs on Linux or UNIX.
As such, any mishmash to make it appear to be as such will not translate well from distribution of OS to the next.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
mkfs.minix
MKFS.MINIX(8) Linux System Administrator's Manual MKFS.MINIX(8)
NAME
mkfs.minix - make a Linux MINIX filesystem
SYNOPSIS
mkfs.minix [-c|-l filename] [-n namelength] [-i inodecount] [-v] device [size-in-blocks]
DESCRIPTION
mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
The device is usually of the following form:
/dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
/dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
/dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
/dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
The size-in-blocks parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. It is present only for backwards compatibility. If omit-
ted the size will be determined automatically. Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than 65536 are allowed.
OPTIONS
-c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If any are found, the count is printed.
-n namelength
Specify the maximum length of filenames. Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30. The default is 30. Note that kernels
older than 0.99p7 only accept namelength 14.
-i inodecount
Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
-l filename
Read the bad blocks list from filename. The file has one bad block number per line. The count of bad blocks read is printed.
-v Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
EXIT CODES
The exit code returned by mkfs.minix is one of the following:
0 No errors
8 Operational error
16 Usage or syntax error
SEE ALSO
mkfs(8), fsck(8), reboot(8)
AVAILABILITY
The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
Util-linux 2.6 2 July 1996 MKFS.MINIX(8)