Disks package

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 30/10/12 21:15, Mike Adams wrote:
>
> On 30/10/2012 20:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>  > O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >> Yes I know, which is why I raised the query. I think that the package
>  >> was originally named "disk-utils", but Kubuntu called it " disks" in
>  >> 12.04. It's a utility that looks at the disk hardware in a given machine
>  >> and produces useful info regarding physical details of the disks,
>  >> partitioning, file system formats etc..
>  >
>  > I can not find any such package here on my 12.04 install?? fdisk, udisk
>  > etc but no disks??
>
> Try looking for "disk utility" in the software center.  That's where I
> found it.
>
> Mike

Thanks, Mike. That solved my problem, although I remain puzzled as to 
why the utility doesn't appear in the repositories via Synaptic, from 
whence I initially installed it in 12.04.

Regards

Peter HB