Disks
Contents
Introduction
It would be nice to have an end-user oriented application that can be used to view and modify storage details on local and removable devices.
Designers
Status
GNOME Disk Utility (née Palimpsest) and its underlying engine, udisks, is currently being rewritten
See the udisks2-port branch of gnome-disk-utility (link) and udisks master (link)
See David's fdo page for screenshots (updated frequently)
Objectives
Goals
- View local and removable storage devices
- View partitions and filesystems
- Format disks and media
- USB keys, card readers, flash media, disk drives
- Support encryption to keep data private (e.g. LUKS or others)
- Modify disk partition layouts
- Create/delete filesystems and partitions
- Edit filesystems and partitions (resize, change label)
- Disk images
- Create/restore disk images for disk/volumes
- Access disk image files (including ISO files)
- Edit system configuration
- Activate specific devices at OS start-up (fstab/crypttab)
- View hardware problems (SMART)
Non Goals
- Advanced / enterprise storage management
- LVM
- RAID
- Every use-case under the sun
- It's perfectly fine to tell advanced users to use the command-line
Relevant Art
Mac OS X
Windows
GNOME 2
GParted
Discussion
Tentative Design
Comments