GNOME-DISKS

Section: gnome-disk-utility (1)
Updated: March 2013
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NAME

gnome-disks - the GNOME Disks application

SYNOPSIS

gnome-disks [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

gnome-disks

is the command to launch the GNOME Disks application. Disks provides a way to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.

The Disks application is single-instance. What this means is that if the application is not already running when the gnome-disks command is invoked, it will get launched and the command invocation will block until the application exits. Otherwise the existing application instance will be used and the gnome-disks command will exit immediately.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

--block-device DEVICE

: Switches to the Disks application and selects the block device given by DEVICE (for example, /dev/sda).

--block-device DEVICE --format-device [--xid WINDOW-ID]

: Shows the "Format Volume" dialog for the block device given by DEVICE (for example, /dev/sdb1). If WINDOW-ID is given, makes the dialog transient to the given XID.

--restore-disk-image FILE

: Shows the "Restore Disk Image" dialog for the file given by FILE (for example, /home/user/Downloads/SuperOS.iso) and prompts the user to choose a disk to restore the image unto.

-h, --help

: Prints a short help text and exits.

AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at m[blue]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-disk-utilitym[].