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 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to GNOME Disks are Parted Magic, KDE Partition Manager, lshw and hwinfo.

GNOME Disks alternatives are mainly Partition Managers but may also be Disk Cloning Tools or System Information Utilities. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of GNOME Disks.

GNOME Disks

Free • Open Source
Partition Manager

Also known as palimpsest, gnome-disk-utility provides libraries and applications for dealing with storage devices.

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GParted
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Disk Cloning Tool
Disk Imaging Tool
Linux
34 GParted alternatives
GParted is a GTK+ frontend to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application. It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
- - GParted is the most popular Linux alternative to GNOME Disks.
- - GParted is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNOME Disks.
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GParted Features
1. PortableGParted can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightGParted consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Encrypted BackupGParted uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
4. Photo RecoveryGParted can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
5. NTFS Partition RecoveryGParted can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
6. Ad-freeGParted doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
7. Dark ModeGParted supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Editing and creating partitions
Disaster Recovery
Queued Operations
Optimized for Windows
Easy to use
Comments about GParted as a Alternative to GNOME Disks
Most users think GParted is a great GNOME Disks alternative.
Gamliel Fishkin
They are very different, with different functions.
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Guest
It is unable to write .iso or any sort of images to disks.
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Parted Magic
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Paid • Proprietary
Partition Manager
Disk Cloning Tool
Disk Imaging Tool
Windows
Linux
34 Parted Magic alternatives
The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user.
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Parted Magic Features
1. Ad-freeParted Magic doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. PortableParted Magic can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. LightweightParted Magic consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. No TrackingParted Magic will not track you or use your personal data.
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KDE Partition Manager
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Linux
28 KDE Partition Manager alternatives
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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KDE Partition Manager Features
LVM
KDE Widget
lshw
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Free • Open Source
System Information Utility
Linux
43 lshw alternatives
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
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lshw Features
1. Command line interfacelshw either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Export to XML
Export to HTML
Export to JSON
Hardware Monitoring
Tree view
hwinfo
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Free • Open Source
System Information Utility
Linux
106 hwinfo alternatives
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.
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hwinfo Features
1. Command line interfacehwinfo either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Hardware Monitoring
GNU fdisk
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Linux
9 GNU fdisk alternatives
fdisk is a command-line utility that provides disk partitioning functions. It includes an ncurses disk partitioning utility called "cfdisk".
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GNU fdisk Features
Filesystem
GNU Core Utilities
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Free • Open Source
Linux
7 GNU Core Utilities alternatives
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with...
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GNU Core Utilities Features
1. Command line interfaceGNU Core Utilities either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Plain text file
Add a screenshot
GNU Parted
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Linux
13 GNU Parted alternatives
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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blivet-gui
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Linux
24 blivet-gui alternatives
blivet-gui is a graphical tool for storage management that uses blivet library.
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blivet-gui Features
LVM
Support for BTRFS
Support for RAID
ALT Linux
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Free • Open Source
Linux Distro
Linux
223 ALT Linux alternatives
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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ALT Linux Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryALT Linux can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
X86/x64 Compatibility
UEFI Support
Rescue cd
Linux-based
Network Tools
Comments about ALT Linux as a Alternative to GNOME Disks
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ALT Linux is an operating system (or systems), while gnome-disk-utility is a system utility for managing physical drives.
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hddtemp
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Free • Open Source
Linux
9 hddtemp alternatives
hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature).
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hddtemp Features
Temperature Monitoring
gpart
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Free • Open Source
Linux
9 gpart alternatives
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.
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