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Qwertius

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Registered: 2017-10-24

Posts: 66

A program to consider for our software list - Gnome Disk Utility.

One program that I get a lot of use out of - is gnome-disk-utility.

I tend to use it in tandem with GParted.

As it says on the on the Gnome Disk Utility tin --

'It lets you partition, format, check, benchmark, and view S.M.A.R.T. health of drives.

It also offers easy ways to mount/unmount volumes, create disk images (like ISOs), manage mount options

It can add encryption or password protection to drives, making complex disk tasks simple.

So all in all - a useful tool to have around.

I hope the Q4OS team may consider it for our software list.

Cheers

Q

Last edited by Qwertius (2025-12-20 04:59)

seb3773

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From: France

Registered: 2023-11-01

Posts: 230

Re: A program to consider for our software list - Gnome Disk Utility.

Maybe you can try tdeparted, I think there's mostly everything you have in Gnome disk & gparted +few additionnal features:
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6046

Don't hesitate to tell me if there's something you need that's missing

Last edited by seb3773 (2026-05-02 17:23)

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,563

Re: A program to consider for our software list - Gnome Disk Utility.

G-D-U is the one bit of software I trust for burning iso to usb key. Simple, straightforward and always works.
I also use it to unmount and power down externally mounted hard drives (spinner or SSD) - never any dramas or problems.

Gparted - again, been using it for years. Especially handy if I need to resize a VM which does happen.