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Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 21:26

Disks - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Disk Utility Application

Disks, or GNOME Disk Utility, is the Ubuntu default disk storage management application. Its purpose is to manage everything about hard disk drives and other storage on your Ubuntu computer -- including optical discs (CDs, DVDs) and USB flash drives. That means you can alter the filesystem inside that disk (create, remove, resize, and rename it), format the disk (to MBR or GPT), make a backup, as well as write an ISO image to that disk, and do other useful things such as benchmarks and more configurations.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 22:25

Compilation of Hard Disk Partitioning Tutorials

This is a collection of hard disk partitioning and maintenancing tutorials published by Ubuntu Buzz in several years. With these tutorials, you can learn how to create, format, reformat, rename, delete, resize, enlarge, shrink filesystems and partitions to digital storages including hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs, flash drives, both internal or external. They are mostly graphical user interface (GUI) based, can be done easily in LiveCD mode, and are reasonably universal for everyone to practice in any operating system including Windows and macOS other than GNU/Linux. We discussed here tools we actually use mainly GParted, GNOME Disk Utility, KDE Partition Manager as well as other important utility like Testdisk and Unetbootin with one booting guide for ThinkPad our favorite laptop brand. We support both Legacy BIOS as well as UEFI booting methods and both MBR and GPT partitioning schemes. All in all, here's the compilation for you.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, January 12, 2024 at 23:46

How To Resize and Shrink Hard Disk Partitions using GParted

This tutorial will show a basic method to resize and shrink hard disk drive partitions and filesystems that can be practiced for any computer as well as laptop. You will need an Ubuntu Livecd which GParted software is available built-in either in form of a DVD or USB flash drive to do so. Our way to explain this is by using examples of C, D, and E drives and comic pictures with the hope of you can follow it easily. Now let's learn and practice.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 22:46

Safely Convert Hard Disk to GPT without Data Loss

We want to share with you a note from our experience in converting a 320GB hard disk drive from MBR to GPT without data loss. We use gdisk, a famous tool by Roderick "Rodsbooks" Smith, and do several steps to finish it in a very quick time. Here's the results.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 11:34

How To Format Storage Drive for UEFI-GPT System Installation

This simple tutorial will explain how you can prepare a hard disk or a USB flash drive with GUID Partition Table (GPT) technology for the purpose of operating system installation on UEFI computer. You can read this before installing a GNU/Linux distribution to your modern PC and laptop. Good luck!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 00:57

How To Install Trisquel 9.0 Etiona

This tutorial explains step by step to have your computer with Trisquel 9.0. Don’t worry this is intended for beginners so everyone can try. You will prepare at least two disk partitions and going through about twenty minutes to finish it. For your information, different to Ubuntu, Trisquel supports 32 bit as well as 64 bit computers and I encourage fellow Lenovo ThinkPad owners to try it happily. You can practice this guide either normally, in dualboot mode, bios legacy and uefi, or into external storage device. Last but not least, you can also do this inside a virtual machine like AQEMU. Now let’s go!

(Trisquel 9 computer on its installation process)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, October 12, 2020 at 22:18

How To Install Ubuntu With ‘D Drive’-like Data Partition

Actually it is very easy to install Ubuntu alike operating systems with data storage partitions similar to Drive D: to mimic tradition of Windows computers. What you need to do is just install Ubuntu like usual but create one additional large partition without attaching mount point to it. The result is you will always see one data partition ready to use just like you usually found while using Windows. Just because apparently many people asked it then I make this tutorial to help. As stated it is for Ubuntu alike, you can also practice this to Fedora, openSUSE, Manjaro, and others.

(A Kubuntu laptop with New Volume displayed as data partition)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 21:39

What To Do When Your Computer Fails

This is a note I took based on my experience with computer failure. You can imagine worst situation when everything is closer to an end. It feels frustrating and can lead to despair. You may already found the signs that your hard disk drive, display, touchpad, USB ports, are already in worse condition. Before your machine die for sure, you can learn something from my reflections below as now mine died. It died after worked for me since 2016 almost nonstop everyday. I hope you would never experience any of my story and only got solutions and the good things if anytime things going worse.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 23:08

How To Format A Disk Drive as GPT on Ubuntu

This tutorial explains step by step to format a USB Flash Drive with GPT technology on Ubuntu. You do not need to install additional software thanks to the built-in Disk Utility tool. Not only to flash drive, you can also apply this tutorial to hard disk and other storage media drives. I hope this could be useful for you!

(Ubuntu Disk Utility after formatting a GPT flash disk drive)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 14:24

How To Format A Disk Drive with Ubuntu Disk Utility

This tutorial explains step by step to format a USB Flash Drive on Ubuntu. We will use built-in tool in Ubuntu called Disk Utility. If you want to do it from Ubuntu file manager instead, feel free to go to Alternative section at the end. May you always have safe disk formatting!

Disk Utility on Ubuntu 19.04

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 22:19

Automount Disk Partitions on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04

On Ubuntu 18.04, you may want to automount your disk partitions. With this, you don't need to open the partition every time you want to access it. Also, this seriously helps if you work with LibreOffice with your documents in different partition. What you need is the built-in GNOME Disk Utility program and the setting is very easy. It's explained on the instruction below and it's also applicable to Ubuntu 17.10. To start the setting, open up Disks program from menu or simply run gnome-disk-utility from terminal.