2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
6 menu "Linux System Utilities"
15 acpid listens to ACPI events coming either in textual form from
16 /proc/acpi/event (though it is marked deprecated it is still widely
17 used and _is_ a standard) or in binary form from specified evdevs
18 (just use /dev/input/event*).
20 It parses the event to retrieve ACTION and a possible PARAMETER.
21 It then spawns /etc/acpi/<ACTION>[/<PARAMETER>] either via run-parts
22 (if the resulting path is a directory) or directly as an executable.
24 N.B. acpid relies on run-parts so have the latter installed.
26 config FEATURE_ACPID_COMPAT
27 bool "Accept and ignore redundant options"
31 Accept and ignore compatibility options -g -m -s -S -v.
39 Lists labels and UUIDs of all filesystems.
41 With all submodules selected, it will add ~8k to busybox.
43 config FEATURE_BLKID_TYPE
44 bool "Print filesystem type"
48 Show TYPE="filesystem type"
55 dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. When the
56 Linux kernel prints messages to the system log, they are stored in
57 the kernel ring buffer. You can use dmesg to print the kernel's ring
58 buffer, clear the kernel ring buffer, change the size of the kernel
59 ring buffer, and change the priority level at which kernel messages
60 are also logged to the system console. Enable this option if you
61 wish to enable the 'dmesg' utility.
63 config FEATURE_DMESG_PRETTY
64 bool "Pretty dmesg output"
68 If you wish to scrub the syslog level from the output, say 'Y' here.
69 The syslog level is a string prefixed to every line with the form
72 With this option you will see:
74 Linux version 2.6.17.4 .....
75 BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
76 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
78 Without this option you will see:
80 <5>Linux version 2.6.17.4 .....
81 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
82 <6> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
89 fbset is used to show or change the settings of a Linux frame buffer
90 device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique
91 interface to access a graphics display. Enable this option
92 if you wish to enable the 'fbset' utility.
94 config FEATURE_FBSET_FANCY
95 bool "Turn on extra fbset options"
99 This option enables extended fbset options, allowing one to set the
100 framebuffer size, color depth, etc. interface to access a graphics
101 display. Enable this option if you wish to enable extended fbset
104 config FEATURE_FBSET_READMODE
105 bool "Turn on fbset readmode support"
109 This option allows fbset to read the video mode database stored by
110 default as /etc/fb.modes, which can be used to set frame buffer
111 device to pre-defined video modes.
116 select PLATFORM_LINUX
118 fdflush is only needed when changing media on slightly-broken
119 removable media drives. It is used to make Linux believe that a
120 hardware disk-change switch has been actuated, which causes Linux to
121 forget anything it has cached from the previous media. If you have
122 such a slightly-broken drive, you will need to run fdflush every time
123 you change a disk. Most people have working hardware and can safely
129 select PLATFORM_LINUX
131 fdformat is used to low-level format a floppy disk.
136 select PLATFORM_LINUX
138 The fdisk utility is used to divide hard disks into one or more
139 logical disks, which are generally called partitions. This utility
140 can be used to list and edit the set of partitions or BSD style
141 'disk slices' that are defined on a hard drive.
143 config FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
144 bool "Support over 4GB disks"
147 depends on !LFS # with LFS no special code is needed
149 Enable this option to support large disks > 4GB.
151 config FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
156 Enabling this option allows you to create or change a partition table
157 and write those changes out to disk. If you leave this option
158 disabled, you will only be able to view the partition table.
160 config FEATURE_AIX_LABEL
161 bool "Support AIX disklabels"
163 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
165 Enabling this option allows you to create or change AIX disklabels.
166 Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
168 config FEATURE_SGI_LABEL
169 bool "Support SGI disklabels"
171 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
173 Enabling this option allows you to create or change SGI disklabels.
174 Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
176 config FEATURE_SUN_LABEL
177 bool "Support SUN disklabels"
179 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
181 Enabling this option allows you to create or change SUN disklabels.
182 Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
184 config FEATURE_OSF_LABEL
185 bool "Support BSD disklabels"
187 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
189 Enabling this option allows you to create or change BSD disklabels
190 and define and edit BSD disk slices.
192 config FEATURE_GPT_LABEL
193 bool "Support GPT disklabels"
195 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
197 Enabling this option allows you to view GUID Partition Table
200 config FEATURE_FDISK_ADVANCED
201 bool "Support expert mode"
203 depends on FDISK && FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
205 Enabling this option allows you to do terribly unsafe things like
206 define arbitrary drive geometry, move the beginning of data in a
207 partition, and similarly evil things. Unless you have a very good
208 reason you would be wise to leave this disabled.
213 select PLATFORM_LINUX
216 Prints the name of a filesystem with given label or UUID.
218 With all submodules selected, it will add ~8k to busybox.
224 Manage locks from shell scripts
229 select PLATFORM_LINUX
231 Linux allows you to create ramdisks. This utility allows you to
232 delete them and completely free all memory that was used for the
233 ramdisk. For example, if you boot Linux into a ramdisk and later
234 pivot_root, you may want to free the memory that is allocated to the
235 ramdisk. If you have no use for freeing memory from a ramdisk, leave
242 The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem
243 with little overhead. It is not a journaling filesystem however and
244 can experience corruption if it is not properly unmounted or if the
245 power goes off in the middle of a write. This utility allows you to
246 check for and attempt to repair any corruption that occurs to a minix
252 select PLATFORM_LINUX
254 The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem
255 with little overhead. If you wish to be able to create minix
256 filesystems this utility will do the job for you.
258 config FEATURE_MINIX2
259 bool "Support Minix fs v2 (fsck_minix/mkfs_minix)"
261 depends on FSCK_MINIX || MKFS_MINIX
263 If you wish to be able to create version 2 minix filesystems, enable
264 this. If you enabled 'mkfs_minix' then you almost certainly want to
265 be using the version 2 filesystem support.
270 select PLATFORM_LINUX
272 Utility to create ReiserFS filesystems.
273 Note: this applet needs a lot of testing and polishing.
278 select PLATFORM_LINUX
280 Utility to create FAT32 filesystems.
286 The getopt utility is used to break up (parse) options in command
287 lines to make it easy to write complex shell scripts that also check
288 for legal (and illegal) options. If you want to write horribly
289 complex shell scripts, or use some horribly complex shell script
290 written by others, this utility may be for you. Most people will
291 wisely leave this disabled.
293 config FEATURE_GETOPT_LONG
294 bool "Support option -l"
295 default y if LONG_OPTS
298 Enable support for long options (option -l).
304 The hexdump utility is used to display binary data in a readable
305 way that is comparable to the output from most hex editors.
307 config FEATURE_HEXDUMP_REVERSE
308 bool "Support -R, reverse of 'hexdump -Cv'"
312 The hexdump utility is used to display binary data in an ascii
313 readable way. This option creates binary data from an ascii input.
314 NB: this option is non-standard. It's unwise to use it in scripts
315 aimed to be portable.
322 hd is an alias to hexdump -C.
327 select PLATFORM_LINUX
329 The hwclock utility is used to read and set the hardware clock
330 on a system. This is primarily used to set the current time on
331 shutdown in the hardware clock, so the hardware will keep the
332 correct time when Linux is _not_ running.
334 config FEATURE_HWCLOCK_LONG_OPTIONS
335 bool "Support long options (--hctosys,...)"
337 depends on HWCLOCK && LONG_OPTS
339 By default, the hwclock utility only uses short options. If you
340 are overly fond of its long options, such as --hctosys, --utc, etc)
341 then enable this option.
343 config FEATURE_HWCLOCK_ADJTIME_FHS
344 bool "Use FHS /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime"
345 default n # util-linux-ng in Fedora 13 still uses /etc/adjtime
348 Starting with FHS 2.3, the adjtime state file is supposed to exist
349 at /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime instead of /etc/adjtime. If you wish
350 to use the FHS behavior, answer Y here, otherwise answer N for the
351 classic /etc/adjtime path.
353 pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBHWCLOCKSTATEDIRECTORYFORHWCLO
359 The ipcrm utility allows the removal of System V interprocess
360 communication (IPC) objects and the associated data structures
366 select PLATFORM_LINUX
368 The ipcs utility is used to provide information on the currently
369 allocated System V interprocess (IPC) objects in the system.
374 select PLATFORM_LINUX
376 losetup is used to associate or detach a loop device with a regular
377 file or block device, and to query the status of a loop device. This
378 version does not currently support enabling data encryption.
383 #select PLATFORM_LINUX
385 lspci is a utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the
386 system and devices connected to them.
388 This version uses sysfs (/sys/bus/pci/devices) only.
393 #select PLATFORM_LINUX
395 lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the
396 system and devices connected to them.
398 This version uses sysfs (/sys/bus/usb/devices) only.
404 The mkswap utility is used to configure a file or disk partition as
405 Linux swap space. This allows Linux to use the entire file or
406 partition as if it were additional RAM, which can greatly increase
407 the capability of low-memory machines. This additional memory is
408 much slower than real RAM, but can be very helpful at preventing your
409 applications being killed by the Linux out of memory (OOM) killer.
410 Once you have created swap space using 'mkswap' you need to enable
411 the swap space using the 'swapon' utility.
413 config FEATURE_MKSWAP_UUID
418 Generate swap spaces with universally unique identifiers.
424 more is a simple utility which allows you to read text one screen
425 sized page at a time. If you want to read text that is larger than
426 the screen, and you are using anything faster than a 300 baud modem,
427 you will probably find this utility very helpful. If you don't have
428 any need to reading text files, you can leave this disabled.
433 select PLATFORM_LINUX
435 The pivot_root utility swaps the mount points for the root filesystem
436 with some other mounted filesystem. This allows you to do all sorts
437 of wild and crazy things with your Linux system and is far more
438 powerful than 'chroot'.
440 Note: This is for initrd in linux 2.4. Under initramfs (introduced
441 in linux 2.6) use switch_root instead.
447 The rdate utility allows you to synchronize the date and time of your
448 system clock with the date and time of a remote networked system using
449 the RFC868 protocol, which is built into the inetd daemon on most
456 Print the device node associated with the filesystem mounted at '/'.
461 #select PLATFORM_LINUX
463 This allows you to parse /proc/profile for basic profiling.
468 select PLATFORM_LINUX
470 Enter a system sleep state until specified wakeup time.
476 The script makes typescript of terminal session.
482 This program replays a typescript, using timing information
488 select PLATFORM_LINUX
490 The switch_root utility is used from initramfs to select a new
491 root device. Under initramfs, you have to use this instead of
492 pivot_root. (Stop reading here if you don't care why.)
494 Booting with initramfs extracts a gzipped cpio archive into rootfs
495 (which is a variant of ramfs/tmpfs). Because rootfs can't be moved
496 or unmounted*, pivot_root will not work from initramfs. Instead,
497 switch_root deletes everything out of rootfs (including itself),
498 does a mount --move that overmounts rootfs with the new root, and
499 then execs the specified init program.
501 * Because the Linux kernel uses rootfs internally as the starting
502 and ending point for searching through the kernel's doubly linked
503 list of active mount points. That's why.
508 select PLATFORM_LINUX
510 When you want to remove a mounted filesystem from its current mount
511 point, for example when you are shutting down the system, the
512 'umount' utility is the tool to use. If you enabled the 'mount'
513 utility, you almost certainly also want to enable 'umount'.
515 config FEATURE_UMOUNT_ALL
516 bool "Support option -a"
520 Support -a option to unmount all currently mounted filesystems.
522 comment "Common options for mount/umount"
523 depends on MOUNT || UMOUNT
525 config FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP
526 bool "Support loopback mounts"
528 depends on MOUNT || UMOUNT
530 Enabling this feature allows automatic mounting of files (containing
531 filesystem images) via the linux kernel's loopback devices.
532 The mount command will detect you are trying to mount a file instead
533 of a block device, and transparently associate the file with a
534 loopback device. The umount command will also free that loopback
537 You can still use the 'losetup' utility (to manually associate files
538 with loop devices) if you need to do something advanced, such as
539 specify an offset or cryptographic options to the loopback device.
540 (If you don't want umount to free the loop device, use "umount -D".)
542 config FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP_CREATE
543 bool "Create new loopback devices if needed"
545 depends on FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP
547 Linux kernels >= 2.6.24 support unlimited loopback devices. They are
548 allocated for use when trying to use a loop device. The loop device
551 This feature lets mount to try to create next /dev/loopN device
552 if it does not find a free one.
554 config FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT
555 bool "Support for the old /etc/mtab file"
557 depends on MOUNT || UMOUNT
558 select FEATURE_MOUNT_FAKE
560 Historically, Unix systems kept track of the currently mounted
561 partitions in the file "/etc/mtab". These days, the kernel exports
562 the list of currently mounted partitions in "/proc/mounts", rendering
563 the old mtab file obsolete. (In modern systems, /etc/mtab should be
564 a symlink to /proc/mounts.)
566 The only reason to have mount maintain an /etc/mtab file itself is if
567 your stripped-down embedded system does not have a /proc directory.
568 If you must use this, keep in mind it's inherently brittle (for
569 example a mount under chroot won't update it), can't handle modern
570 features like separate per-process filesystem namespaces, requires
571 that your /etc directory be writable, tends to get easily confused
572 by --bind or --move mounts, won't update if you rename a directory
573 that contains a mount point, and so on. (In brief: avoid.)
575 About the only reason to use this is if you've removed /proc from
578 source util-linux/volume_id/Config.in