GNOME Disks vs GParted

GNOME Disks is a free Linux utility for managing disks and block devices. It can inspect, format, partition, and configure storage, while showing a visual breakdown of volumes and partitions on a selected device. Supported examples include hard drives, USB drives, DVD-RWs, and SD cards. The utility displays SMART data, benchmarks physical disks, and creates images of USB sticks. It can check filesystems for damage and restore them to usable states. Formatting removable disks can wipe their contents, and disk utilities can completely erase data. GNOME Disks is available as bootable media. The app-specific content is licensed under GPL-2.0+, and Kai Lüke is listed as maintainer. Online help and an issue tracker are provided for support and feedback. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes inspection, formatting, partitioning, configuration, SMART data, benchmarking, and USB imaging.

GParted is a free graphical editor for managing disk partitions. It can create, delete, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, as well as assign a new UUID. It can also create partition tables such as msdos and gpt. Supported storage includes hard drives, USB flash devices, SSDs, NVMe, and RAID devices. The project lists filesystems including bcachefs, btrfs, exFAT, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, NTFS, and XFS, although available actions vary by filesystem. GParted Live provides a bootable GNU/Linux environment that can run from CD, USB, a PXE server, or a hard disk. Current Live releases are 64-bit amd64 images and work with UEFI Secure Boot; native installation requires Linux. At least 1 GB of RAM is needed to use all application features. The project warns that partition editing can cause data loss and recommends backing up first. It also provides instructions for checking downloads with a signed checksum list and GPG.