---
name: "gnome-disks"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-disk-utility"
version: "46.1-3"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gnome-disks"
---

# gnome-disks(1)

the GNOME Disks application

## NAME

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 **https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/**.

## SEE ALSO

[**gnome-disk-image-mounter**(1)](/gnome-disk-image-mounter/1.md), [**udisks**(8)](/udisks/8.md)