Additional Packages
File System Utilities
| File system |
Package |
Creation command |
Description |
| Btrfs |
btrfs-progs |
mkfs.btrfs |
Btrfs filesystem utilities |
| VFAT |
dosfstools |
mkfs.fat |
DOS filesystem utilities |
| exFAT |
exfatprogs |
mkfs.exfat |
exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for the Linux Kernel exfat driver |
| F2FS |
f2fs-tools |
mkfs.f2fs |
Tools for Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) |
| ext2/ext3/ext4 |
e2fsprogs |
mkfs.ext2/mkfs.ext3/mkfs.ext4 |
Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities |
| HFS/HFS+ |
hfsprogs (AUR) |
mkfs.hfsplus |
User space utils to create and check Apple HFS/HFS+ filesystem |
| JFS |
jfsutils |
mkfs.jfs |
JFS filesystem utilities |
| NILFS2 |
nilfs-utils |
mkfs.nilfs2 |
A log-structured file system supporting continuous snapshotting |
| NTFS |
ntfs-3g |
mkfs.ntfs |
NTFS filesystem driver and utilities |
| ReiserFS |
reiserfsprogs |
mkfs.reiserfs |
Reiserfs utilities |
| UDF |
udftools |
mkfs.udf |
Linux tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives |
| XFS |
xfsprogs |
mkfs.xfs |
XFS filesystem utilities |
| Package |
Description |
lshw |
A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine |
fwupd |
Simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware |
power-profiles-daemon |
Makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus |
htop |
Interactive process viewer |
radeontop |
View AMD GPU utilization for total activity percent and individual blocks |
man-db |
A utility for reading man pages |
libimobiledevice |
Library to communicate with services on iOS devices using native protocols |
| Package |
Description |
aegisub |
A general-purpose subtitle editor with ASS/SSA support |
amberol |
Plays music, and nothing else |
blanket |
Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds |
handbrake |
Multithreaded video transcoder |
makemkv |
DVD and Blu-ray to MKV converter |
mediainfo-gui |
DVD and Blu-ray to MKV converter |
tube-converter |
An easy-to-use video downloader |
Productivity
| Package |
Description |
apostrophe |
A distraction free Markdown editor for GNU/Linux made with GTK+ |
visual-studio-code-bin |
Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications |
| Package |
Description |
impression |
A straight-forward modern application to create bootable drives. |
p7zip |
Command-line file archiver with high compression ratio |
teamviewer |
All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings |
NOTE: These messages just inform about active kernel modules that necessitate firmware to operate associated hardware properly, which was not found. If your systems operates as expected with the default firmware package you don't need this.
To get rid of Possibly missing firmware for module: $MODULE warning messages when rebuilding the initrd install this meta package from the AUR:
yay -S mkinitcpio-firmware
