GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks.^[3] It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12).^[4] An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project.

GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks 40 (released in March 2021)
Original author(s)	Red Hat
Developer(s)	David Zeuthen
Stable release	44.0[1]  / 17 March 2023; 17 months ago (17 March 2023)
Preview release	41.beta[2]  / 14 August 2021; 3 years ago (14 August 2021)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility.git
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux
Platform	GNOME
Size	1.4 MB
Available in	Multilingual[which?]
Type	Partition editor
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	apps.gnome.org/en/app/org.gnome.DiskUtility/

Main article: GNOME Core Applications

Disks used to be known as GNOME Disk Utility or palimpsest Disk Utility. Udisks was named DeviceKit-disks in earlier releases. DeviceKit-disks is part of DeviceKit which was planned to replace certain aspects of HAL. HAL and DeviceKit have been deprecated.

GNOME Disks has been included by default in several Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Trisquel, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.

GNOME Disks acts as a front-end to udisks2^[5] and gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.

See also

• Linux portal
• Free and open-source software portal

• List of disk partitioning software
• System monitor
• Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
• GParted – another alternative
• Disk utility

References

1. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/tags/44.0. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/tags/41.beta. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. Richard Petersen (December 1, 2010), Fedora 14: Administration and Security, Surfing Turtle Press, pp. 147–, ISBN 978-1-936280-23-0
4. "Disk Utility management for GNOME". 18 January 2014.
5. "udisks2 readme". GitHub. 8 June 2022.

External links

• Official website