GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks

Original author(s)	Red Hat
Developer(s)	David Zeuthen
Stable release	3.6.1 / October 3, 2012 (2012-10-03)
Development status	Active
Written in	C
Operating system	GNU/Linux
Platform	GNOME
Size	1.4 MB
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Disk utility
License	LGPL v2+
Website	http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/

GNOME Disks or simply, Disks, 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. An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project.

Disks was previously 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 both 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 Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS.

See also

• List of disk partitioning software
• System monitor
• Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
• Richard Petersen, "Disk Utility (Palimpsest)", Fedora 14 Administration and Security: 147, ISBN 978-1-936280-22-3 

External links

• http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/
• http://library.gnome.org/users/palimpsest/
• http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2009/12/udisks-and-gnome-disk-utility-past.html
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit