GNOME Disks Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to GNOME Disks for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is GParted, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to GNOME Disks and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to GNOME Disks are KDE Partition Manager, Parted Magic, GNU Parted and blivet-gui.

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  1. GParted icon

    GParted

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    Handle disk partitions efficiently with this GTK+ frontend. Create, delete, resize, or move partitions, and use GParted Live for full features on various OS platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. Supports NTFS resizing and enables disk cloning on x86 systems.

    35 GParted alternatives

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    Comments about GParted as an Alternative to GNOME Disks
    Gamliel Fishkin
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    5

    They are very different, with different functions.

    Guest
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    It is unable to write .iso or any sort of images to disks.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think GParted is a great GNOME Disks alternative.

    • GParted is the most popular Linux alternative to GNOME Disks.

    • GParted is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNOME Disks.

    • GParted is Free and Open SourceGNOME Disks is also Free and Open Source
    • GParted is LightweightGNOME Disks is not according to our users
  2. KDE Partition Manager icon

    KDE Partition Manager

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    KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.

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    • Linux
    • KDE
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  4. Parted Magic icon

    Parted Magic

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    Bootable operating system with GParted and Parted, offers powerful partition management, disk cloning, secure erasure, data rescue, benchmarking, password reset, extensive filesystem support, and advanced tools for storage, compatible with low-end hardware.

    38 Parted Magic alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. GNU Parted icon

    GNU Parted

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    GNU Parted manipulates partition tables. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data on hard disks and disk imaging. The package contains a library, libparted, as well as well as a command-line frontend, parted, which can...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  6. blivet-gui icon

    blivet-gui

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    blivet-gui is a graphical tool for storage management that uses blivet library.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    lshw

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    lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.

    49 lshw alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    lshw-gtk showing CPU informations
     
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    hwinfo

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    hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

    127 hwinfo alternatives

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  10. GNU fdisk icon

    GNU fdisk

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    fdisk is a command-line utility that provides disk partitioning functions. It includes an ncurses disk partitioning utility called "cfdisk".

    9 GNU fdisk alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. ALT Linux icon

    ALT Linux

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    ALT Linux is a set of RPM-based, APT-managed operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel and Sisyphus package repository branches. ALT Linux Rescue is, well, the disaster recovery tool.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    uefi boot
     
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    Guest
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    ALT Linux is an operating system (or systems), while gnome-disk-utility is a system utility for managing physical drives.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • ALT Linux is Free and Open SourceGNOME Disks is also Free and Open Source
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    gpart

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    Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  13. lsdisk

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    Creates a list of attached disks without root privileges (similar as ldisk -lu, but with extensive device information).

    8 lsdisk alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  14. DarkDiskz

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    DarkDiskz is an open-source, Linux-native disk management GUI.

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