6.6 Using the GNOME Disks Utility

The gnome-disks utility provides a user-friendly graphical alternative to reclaiming the Windows partitions from the command-line. Since the example used here will convert the Windows NTFS partitions to XFS format, the first step us to install the xfsprogs package as follows:

# apt install xfsprogs

Once the package has been installed, open a terminal window and launch the gnome-disks utility:

# gnome-disks

After a short delay, the gnome-disks tool will appear as shown in Figure 6-1:

Figure 6-1

In the above example, the disk contains two Windows NTFS partitions which will need to be deleted. Any NTFS partitions with a star shown in the disk map (as is the case for the highlighted partition in the above figure) will need to be unmounted before they can be deleted. This can be achieved by selecting the partition and clicking on the unmount button as indicated in Figure 6-2 below:

Figure 6-2

With all the NTFS partitions...