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SynoCli Disk Tools

SynoCli Disk Tools provides essential disk management and recovery utilities.

Package Information

Property Value
Package Name synocli-disk
License Various (GPL, LGPL)

Included Tools

Tool Description
e2fsprogs ext⅔/4 filesystem utilities (e2fsck, mkfs.ext4, etc.)
ntfs-3g NTFS read/write support
ntfsprogs NTFS utilities
testdisk Data recovery tool
ncdu NCurses disk usage (also in synocli-file)
davfs2 Mount WebDAV shares
lsscsi List SCSI devices
ddrescue Data recovery tool

Usage Examples

testdisk - Data Recovery

# Launch interactive recovery
sudo testdisk

# Select disk and follow prompts
# Can recover deleted partitions and files

ddrescue - Disk Imaging

# Create rescue image of failing disk
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb /volume1/backup/disk.img /volume1/backup/disk.log

# Resume interrupted recovery
sudo ddrescue -r3 /dev/sdb /volume1/backup/disk.img /volume1/backup/disk.log

davfs2 - Mount WebDAV

# Mount WebDAV share
sudo mount -t davfs https://webdav.server/path /mnt/webdav

# Add to /etc/fstab for persistent mount
https://webdav.server/path /mnt/webdav davfs user,noauto 0 0

lsscsi - List SCSI Devices

# Show all SCSI devices
lsscsi

# Verbose output
lsscsi -v

e2fsprogs - Filesystem Operations

# Check filesystem (must be unmounted)
sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdb1

# Show filesystem info
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1