There have been complaints that Ubuntu lacks a disk configuration utility, which forces newbies to manually edit fstab if they want to use a drive that was not present when they installed the system. Manually editing the file is difficult and frustrating to them, and not an ideal way to handle the issue on the long run.
How works:
-Disk Manager notifies about new drives:
-Disk Manager allows the user to mount or unmount drives without any hassle, even by providing a simple name for them:
-Disk Manager allows to easily enable NTFS writing support:
-Disk Manager allows to keep track of mounted / unmounted partitions and free space on them:
Use cases:
-David has been using Ubuntu for a short time, but he has already filled his hard drive. He buys a second one and, when he reboots, gets a notification telling him that a new HD has been found. He clicks the notification area icon and gets his new drive up and working in seconds and just with a few clicks. He doesn’t know what fstab is, he will never need to worry about that.
Read more about: Disk Manager Wiki.
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This is great! Kudos to everyone involved.
Do you know if someone is creating a KDE version of this?
BTW, you might want to make auto configuration the default and show the scary (
) device paths only on request.
Comment by onety-three — February 9, 2008 @ 11:01 am
I was already using it, this is great news for all Ubuntu users!
Rehdon
Comment by Rehdon — February 9, 2008 @ 11:07 am
This is very cool! I’ve submitted it to Digg.
Comment by børge — February 9, 2008 @ 11:28 am
I presume you participate in this project. Tell me, have you done research before starting it? Have you checked whether Kubuntu (or some other distro) has a tool just for that? Have you considered contacting the developers of that tool and asking them whether sharing a common core would be wise?
Or is research the uncool thing to do nowadays?
Comment by Martin "mhb" Böhm — February 9, 2008 @ 11:34 am
[...] soddisfazione, speravo che sarebbe successo e infatti ho appena letto che Disk Manager, che avevo presentato taaanto tempo fa ai pollycokers del mondo riuniti (cfr [...]
Pingback by Disk Manager incluso in Ubuntu Hardy « pollycoke :) — February 9, 2008 @ 11:50 am
OMG SWEET!
Comment by Dread Knight — February 9, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Whoa… I really hope you use a spell checker on the contents of those dialogs before you release the code!
Comment by Alex — February 9, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
This is great. I had always wondered why Ubuntu had such an obvious hole there.
Comment by Joseph Mark Jarvis — February 9, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
Great news!
Thats the kind of thinks Linux Desktop needs for a greater adoption!!!
The way to go!
Comment by Mike — February 9, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
How exactly do you know that this will be in Hardy Alpha 5? The blueprint has no assignee, is in “New” state and seems to have seen no discussion anywhere.
Comment by Anonymous Coward — February 9, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
On the way to Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432195 .
If reviewer will be fast, we’ll probably have it on CD too
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Comment by Livio — February 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
awesome, keep it up
Comment by Terance Sola — February 9, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
This is just the kind of misinformation that gets people’s hopes up and disappoints them when the things that are “promised” aren’t delivered.
We will NOT have Disk Manager in Alpha 5. It’s extremely unlikely.
Comment by Anonymous Coward — February 9, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
[...] Gondim tells us in his post on Planet Ubuntu that not only will there be a new Disk Manager utility, and it will be turned on by default, it [...]
Pingback by Better disk management coming to Ubuntu Hardy « I’m Just an Avatar — February 9, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
I really like the way this application looks. Even if it isn’t ready by Alpha 5, I’ll be glad to have it by the release. Except now I’ll have to review on the blog… Oh well!
Comment by Mary Riley — February 10, 2008 @ 12:11 am
Shouldn’t it read like this?:
“New partitions have been detected and can be configured. Click on this icon to configure them.”
“New partitions “has” been detected” does not sound proper.
Comment by BrokenCrystal — February 10, 2008 @ 12:43 am
How about you run this past the Ubuntu release team, before blogging about something that you will hope will make the release?
If you can manage to get a package together, reviewed, and promoted into main, and have room on the cds in 4 days, or get an exception…then i’ll be very impressed. Feature freeze is the date you need it done by.
Until you manage to do that, please don’t spread misinformation like this.
Hobbsee
(a member of the Ubuntu Release Team)
Comment by Hobbsee — February 10, 2008 @ 12:54 am
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That interface is probably going to be terribly confusing to the average usre. They won’t know what sdaX represents. Any chance on having it list the seperate disk devices and then a subcategory that expands showing the different partitions?
Comment by Maxo — February 11, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
diskmanager is in KDuXP from first version…is fantastic tools easy.
Comment by SuporteTecnicoID — April 21, 2010 @ 1:36 pm