GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks
Original author(s)Red Hat
Developer(s)David Zeuthen
Stable release
44.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 17 March 2023; 19 months ago (17 March 2023)
Preview release
41.beta[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 14 August 2021; 3 years ago (14 August 2021)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemLinux
PlatformGNOME
Size1.4 MB
Available inMultilingual[which?]
TypePartition editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websiteapps.gnome.org/en/app/org.gnome.DiskUtility/
Main article: GNOME Core Applications

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.

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.
  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.