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Disks (software)

GNOME Disks
Palimpsest.svg
GNOME Disks 3.12.1.png
Original author(s) Red Hat
Developer(s) David Zeuthen
Stable release
3.24.3 (20 July 2017; 25 days ago (2017-07-20))
Preview release
3.25.4 (20 July 2017; 25 days ago (2017-07-20))
Repository git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/
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. Disks can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12). 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 and CentOS.


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