Does Ubuntu come with an equivalent to the Disk Management tool in Windows? How do I access it?
asked Sep 20, 2014 at 2:16
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You can use the Disks utility which is installed by default.
Just search for "Disks" in the dash or run gnome-disks from terminal.
It does look a bit different than Windows Disk Management, but includes a variety of features:
- Creating new partition tables
- Creating and restoring disk images (this is what
dddoes, just nicer and with a progress bar) - Benchmarking disks or partitions
- Reading SMART data (for disks and data connections that support it)
- Apply Standby Timeout Settings and Enable Write Cache (through Drive Settings… menu option)
- Manually putting drives into standby mode or shutting them down
- Format partitions
- Setting partition flags and attributes
- Changing partition labels
- Handling LUKS encrypted disks
…and probably a lot more. If you're just looking for a straight forward partition manager you may want to have a look at GParted.
What you may not find in any graphical tool to my knowledge is how to create and manage software RAID arrays. You should have a look at btrfs, ZFS (on Linux) and mdadm for this functionality.
answered Sep 26, 2014 at 3:48
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One big advantage of Disks over GParted: LVM support. GParted can't see what's inside LVM, Disks shows it as a separate disk.– muruSep 26, 2014 at 4:11
The partitions manager in Ubuntu would be the Disks utility.
In a terminal:
gnome-disks
In the launcher, search for Disks.
GParted is also a very good utility for changing partitioning of disks round! Used to be installed by default, not sure if it still is, but definitely still in repositories :)
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Installing it only takes one
sudo apt-get install gparted. I personally prefer it tognome-disks. Sep 26, 2014 at 3:14