disktui is a terminal-based application for disk management and partitioning on Linux. It provides an interactive text interface for inspecting storage devices, creating partitions and performing common disk administration tasks.
The application offers keyboard-driven navigation between disks and partitions. Users can create partition tables, format storage devices, resize partitions and mount or unmount file systems without entering individual commands for every operation.
disktui also supports LUKS2 encryption and can display detailed disk information, including SMART health data when the appropriate utilities are available. It uses established Linux storage tools to carry out operations and prompts for elevated privileges when necessary.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive terminal interface for disk management and partitioning.
- Browse available disks and their partitions.
- Display detailed disk information and SMART health data.
- Create GPT and MBR partition tables.
- Create and delete disk partitions.
- Format partitions with supported file systems.
- Support ext4, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, Btrfs and XFS with the appropriate system utilities.
- Resize unmounted partitions, subject to file system limitations.
- Mount and unmount partitions.
- Encrypt partitions using LUKS2.
- Lock and unlock encrypted partitions using a passphrase.
- Keyboard navigation with built-in help and terminal colour support.
- Request elevated privileges when performing protected storage operations.
Website: github.com/mkbula/disktui
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Developer: Maciej (mkbula)
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| 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 |
| GPT fdisk | Set of text-mode partitioning tools |
| fdisk | Command-line utility for creating and editing disk partitions |
| disktui | TUI for disk management and partitioning |
| YaST Expert Partitioner | Advanced graphical tool for managing disks and partitions |
| systemd-repart | Declarative tool for automatically configuring disk partitions |
| blivet-gui | Graphical tool for storage configuration |
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