GNOME's Disks Utility Is Getting Large File Support, Resize and Repair Functions

GNOME's Disks utility (gnome-disk-utility) is getting a lot of attention from its maintainers during the development cycle of the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, and it now looks like there will be new disk resize and repair functions, too.

We already reported at the end of May on many of the new features coming to Disks 3.26, which should hit the streets on September 13, 2017, as part of the GNOME 3.26 release, and now, developer Kai Lüke reveals the fact that he's working on implementing the ability to resize partitions and their filesystems, as well as to check filesystems and repair them.

"Offering a file system resize where the block device can’t be fitted is a...