# gnome-disk-utility

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 .

## SEE ALSO

gnome-disk-image-mounter

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udisks

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