GNOME Disks vs IM-Magic Partition Resizer

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.

IM-Magic Partition Resizer manages disks and partitions on Windows PCs and servers. It can resize, move, merge, convert, repair, clone, and back up partitions or disks, and includes a wizard for moving an operating system disk to another disk. Its rollback protection is intended to restore the prior state if a resizing operation is interrupted by an outage, crash, or another failure. The software supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems, as well as MBR and GPT disks. The free edition is for home users and supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, and XP; paid editions add Windows Server support. Resizer Free is free and allows up to 16TB disk capacity per PC. Paid plans include options for PCs, servers, company-wide use, and technician services. Resizer Pro is $59, paid once, billed as a one-time payment with no subscription. Extending a partition requires adjacent unallocated space, and BitLocker partitions must be decrypted or unlocked before certain changes. The maker warns that formatting, wiping, and disk copying can delete data.