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GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks. It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, 
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, and software RAID
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(until v. 3.12). 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
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including Debian
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, Ubuntu
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, Linux Mint
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, Trisquel
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, Fedora
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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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and CentOS
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.
See also
*List of disk partitioning software
This is a list of utilities for performing disk partitioning
Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It i ...
* System monitor
A system monitor is a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system.
Among the management issues regarding use of system monitoring tools are resource usage and privacy. Monitoring can tra ...
* Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
This is an incomplete list of software that reads S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data from hard drives.
Notes
References
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Software comparisons, S.M.A.R.T ...
* GParted
GParted is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside GNOME Disks, Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying Partition (computing), disk partitions a ...
– another alternative
* Disk utility
A disk utility is a utility software, utility program that allows a user to perform various functions on a computer disk, such as disk partitioning and logical volume management, as well as multiple smaller tasks such as changing drive letters an ...
References
External links
* Free software programmed in C GNOME Core Applications Red Hat software Software that uses GTK Software that uses Meson Free partitioning software Linux file system-related software {{GNOME-stub