GNU fdisk Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to GNU fdisk 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 nine alternatives to GNU fdisk and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to GNU fdisk are GNOME Disks, Disks, KDE Partition Manager and GNU Parted.

GNU fdisk alternatives are mainly Partition Managers but may also be Disk Cloning Tools or Hard Disk Diagnostic Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of GNU fdisk.

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GNU fdisk

Free • Open Source
Partition Manager

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

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GParted
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Disk Cloning 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 GNU fdisk.
- - GParted is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNU fdisk.
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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.
Disaster Recovery
Editing and creating partitions
Queued Operations
Optimized for Windows
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fdisk has more options to edit the device such as writing an MBR as a major one whereas GParted just let's you change the table.
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GNOME Disks
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Free • Open Source
Partition Manager
Disk Imaging Tool
Linux
37 GNOME Disks alternatives
Also known as palimpsest, gnome-disk-utility provides libraries and applications for dealing with storage devices.
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GNOME Disks Features
1. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in GNOME Disks without registration.
Editing and creating partitions
Create bootable Image
Drive formating
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
Eject Media
Create image
LUKS Encryption
Disks
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Free • Open Source
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Benchmark Tool
Linux
19 Disks alternatives
A GNOME utility for dealing with storage devices.
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Disks Features
Write ISO to SD card
Disk Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
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
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
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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