GNOME Disks, often simply called Disks, is GNOME’s graphical utility for inspecting and managing storage devices.
It provides a convenient interface for common storage tasks without requiring users to work directly with command-line utilities. Local disks, removable media, partitions and filesystems can all be inspected from the same interface.
Besides partitioning and formatting, Disks includes drive health information, disk imaging and storage benchmarking facilities.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays local disks, removable media and other block devices.
- Shows partitions, filesystems and detailed information about storage devices.
- Creates and deletes partitions.
- Formats partitions with supported filesystems.
- Changes filesystem labels and other storage settings.
- Creates and manages encrypted storage using LUKS.
- Edits mount options and other persistent storage configuration.
- Creates disk images from drives and restores images to storage devices.
- Attaches disk image files for access through the operating system.
- Displays S.M.A.R.T. data and drive health information where supported.
- Provides built-in storage benchmarking facilities.
- Integrates closely with the GNOME desktop and UDisks.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility
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Developer: GNOME Project
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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