GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks
Original author(s) Red Hat
Developer(s) David Zeuthen
Stable release 3.18 (September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)[1]) [±]
Preview release 3.19.4 (January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20)) [±][2]
Development status Active
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Platform GNOME
Size 1.4 MB
Available in Multilingual
Type Disk utility
License LGPL v2+
Website git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/

Disks (also known as gnome-disk-utility or GNOME Disks or palimpsest) is a udisks graphical front-end included in the gnome-disk-utility package.[3] Disks 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. 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.

A unique feature of the partition manager is that tasks are executed in the background, even after the application has been closed by the user.

Disks has been included in several operating systems including Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Trisquel, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6[5] and CentOS.

GNOME Disks acts as a front-end to udisks2[6] and gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor. The mount option x-gvfs-show is not recognized by mount.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Clasen, Matthias (September 23, 2015). "GNOME 3.18". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ "GNOME 3.19.x Development Series". Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  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".
  5. ↑ "Storage". Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Documentation. Redhat. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  6. ↑ "udisks2 readme".

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