GParted
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| GParted | |
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 Screenshot of GParted |
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| Developed by | GParted developers |
| Latest release | 0.3.7 / April 29, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Disk partitioning utility |
| License | GPL |
| Website | gparted.sourceforge.net |
GParted (abbreviated as GPT) is the GNOME GNU Parted frontend and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.
It is used for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems (works with Vista System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of GParted.
GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm as Graphical Toolkit. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible and in conformity with the Human interface guidelines.
There are also Live CD and Live USB versions available,[1] based on Gentoo Catalyst and built on the latest 2.6 Linux kernel. The Live CD version was last updated 1 April 2008, and includes MemTest86+ v 2.01. The Live USB version is identical to the Live CD except for some altered boot scripts. GParted is also available on other GNU/Linux live CDs, including recent versions of Knoppix.
This utility should not be confused with GNU Parted, the command line backend published by the Free Software Foundation.
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[edit] Supported features: File systems & Partitions types
GParted supports the following operations and file systems (provided that all features were enabled at compile-time and all required tools are present on the system):[1]
| Detect | Read | Create | Grow | Shrink | Move | Copy | Check | |
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| ext2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | No |
| FAT16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FAT32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| HFS+ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| JFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| swap | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| NTFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reiser4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ReiserFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| XFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GParted does not support logical volume management (LVM) at present, although this feature has been requested[2] by many users and may be implemented in a future release.
[edit] Derived frontends
With Cursed GTK[2] , one can execute GParted in Ncurses.
[edit] Other GNU Parted frontends
QtParted is the KDE counterpart of GParted
Pyparted is the Python frontend for GNU Parted.
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