GParted

Not to be confused with GNU Parted, the backend behind GParted.

GParted

GParted 0.3.5 running on Ubuntu 8.04
Developer(s)	GParted developers
Stable release	0.10.0 / November 1, 2011; 19 days ago (2011-11-01)[1]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux
Type	Partition editor
License	GNU GPL
Website	http://gparted.sourceforge.net

GParted is a GTK+ front-end to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.

It is used for creating, deleting, 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 / Windows 7 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 to interface with GTK+. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible and in conformity with the Human interface guidelines.^[specify]

The GParted project provides a live operating system including GParted which can be written to a Live CD, a Live USB and other media. The operating system is based on Debian GNU/Linux. GParted is also available on other GNU/Linux live CDs, including recent versions of Puppy, Knoppix and Parted Magic.

Supported features

GParted supports the following operations on file systems (provided that all features were enabled at compile-time and all required tools are present on the system):^[2]

	Detect	Read	Create	Grow	Shrink	Move	Copy	Check	Label
Btrfs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
ext2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ext3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ext4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extended	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Partial	No	No	No	N/A
FAT16	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
FAT32	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
HFS+	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
JFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
swap	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
NTFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reiser4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
ReiserFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
UFS	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
XFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LVM	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
crypt / LUKS	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
exFAT[3][4]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
ZFS	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
MINIX	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
YAFFS	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

GParted detects but does not support logical volume management (LVM) at present, although this feature has been requested^[5] by many users and may be implemented in a future release.

See also

Free software portal

• Partition (computing)
• List of disk partitioning software
• GNU Parted
• KDE Partition Manager

References

1. ^ "GParted News". http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php. Retrieved 2011-07-25. 
2. ^ "GParted Features". http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
3. ^ Feature Requests: exFAT (aka FAT64)
4. ^ Bug / Enhancement 639760 - exfat / fat64 support?
5. ^ Bug 160787 – lvm support

External links

• GParted official web site