GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks.^[2] It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12).^[3] An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project.

Original authorRed Hat

DeveloperDavid Zeuthen

Stable release

46.1^[1]  / 3 September 2024; 18 months ago (3 September 2024)

Written inC

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GNOME Disks
GNOME Disks 40 (released in March 2021)
Original author	Red Hat
Developer	David Zeuthen
Stable release	46.1[1]  / 3 September 2024; 18 months ago (3 September 2024)
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/
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility.git

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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.