Man1 - gnome-disks.1

gnome-disks - the GNOME Disks application

gnome-disks [OPTIONS]

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.

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.

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

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/.

*gnome-disk-image-mounter*(1), *udisks*(8)