Open Source Disk Utility AlternativesDisk Imaging Tools & Partition Managers like Disk Utility

The best open source alternative to Disk Utility is GParted. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Disk Utility and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Disk Utility are GNOME Disks, KDE Partition Manager, ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and WinDiskWriter.

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  1. GParted icon
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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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    • Linux
     
    • GParted is the most popular Linux alternative to Disk Utility.

    • GParted is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Disk Utility.

    • GParted is Free and Open SourceDisk Utility is Free and Proprietary
    • GParted is LightweightDisk Utility is not according to our users
  2. GNOME Disks icon
     69 likes

    Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.

    35 GNOME Disks alternatives

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  3. 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.

    31 KDE Partition Manager alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  4. ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT through Windows 10. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.

    37 ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  5. GNU Parted icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  6. blivet-gui icon
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    blivet-gui is a graphical tool for storage management that uses blivet library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. The term "volume" refers to a disk drive or partition thereof.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents (toc-file).

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
     
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    DarkDiskz is an open-source, Linux-native disk management GUI.

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    • Linux
     
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