Posted by UbuntuPlanet

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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