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Does Ubuntu come with an equivalent to the Disk Management tool in Windows? How do I access it?

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Abd Elrahman Mohsen
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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.

starting disks from the dash

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 dd does, 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.

showing context menus for drives and partitions

LiveWireBT
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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. – muru Sep 26 '14 at 04:11
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The partitions manager in Ubuntu would be the Disks utility.

In a terminal:

gnome-disks

In the launcher, search for Disks.

muru
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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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