GNOME Disks or simply, Disks, is the disk utility in GNOME. It provides a way to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices. Disks can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID.
Disks was previously known as GNOME Disk Utility or palimpsest, as well as DeviceKit-disks. DeviceKit-disks is part of DeviceKit which was planned to replace certain aspects of HAL. HAL and DeviceKit have both been deprecated.
Disks has been included in several Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS.
Key Features
- View local and removable storage devices.
- View partitions and filesystems.
- Format disks and media:
- USB keys, card readers, flash media, disk drives.
- Support encryption to keep data private (e.g. LUKS or others).
- Modify disk partition layouts:
- Create/delete filesystems and partitions.
- Edit filesystems and partitions (resize, change label).
- Disk images:
- Create/restore disk images for disk/volumes.
- Access disk image files (including ISO files).
- Edit system configuration:
- Activate specific devices at OS start-up (fstab/crypttab).
- View hardware problems (SMART).
- Tasks are executed in the background, even after the application has been closed by the user.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility
Support:
Developer: David Zeuthen with contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
GNOME Disks is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Impression | Create bootable drives |
| MultiBootUSB | Create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk |
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| MultiWriter | Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once |
| JustDD | USB image writer |
| MajUSB | USB bootable drive creator with a GTK4 GUI |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Partitioning Tools | |
|---|---|
| GParted | Popular partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions |
| KDE Partition Manager | Disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform |
| GNOME Disks | The disk utility in GNOME |
| Parted | GParted and KDE Partition Manager use the Parted libraries |
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| Benchmark Tools | |
|---|---|
| hyperfine | Rust-based command-line benchmarking tool |
| Phoronix Test Suite | Comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform |
| s-tui | Terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool |
| fio | Scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing |
| KDiskMark | HDD and SSD benchmarking with friendly graphical user interface |
| IOzone | Filesystem benchmark tool |
| stress-ng | Stress next generation |
| Hardinfo2 | System information and benchmark tool |
| sysbench | Scriptable database and system performance benchmark |
| GtkStressTesting | Stress and monitor hardware components |
| HardInfo | System Profiler and Benchmark |
| netperf | A network performance benchmark |
| GNOME Disks | View, modify and configure disks and media |
| bonnie++ | Benchmark suite software |
| LLCbench | Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
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