GNU Parted (from '' GNU partition editor'') is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions. This is useful for creating space for new

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s, reorganising

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usage, copying data between hard disks, and

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. It was written by Andrew Clausen and Lennert Buytenhek. It consists of a

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, libparted, and a

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front-end, parted, that also serves as a

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. , GNU Parted runs only under

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and GNU/

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Other front-ends

Text-based

nparted is the

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-based frontend to GNU Parted. Projects have started for an ncurses frontend, that also could be used in Windows (with GNUWin32 Ncurses). fatresize offers a

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for

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non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library. tparted is the TV/FV-based frontend for GNU Parted.

Graphical front-ends

GParted GParted is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside GNOME Disks, Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying Partition (computing), disk partitions a ...

is a graphical program using the parted libraries. It is adapted for

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, one of the two major

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s (the other being

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) for Unix-like installations. It is often included as utility on many

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distributions to make partitioning easier. KDE Partition Manager is a Qt graphical program, also included on many live CD distributions, which made use of parted libraries; anyway, in version 4.0 its backend, KPMcore, was ported away from libparted to sfdisk.

QtParted QtParted is a Qt4 front-end to GNU Parted. QtParted is a program for Linux which is used for creating, destroying, resizing and managing partitions. It uses the GNU Parted libraries and is built with the Qt4 toolkit. Like GNU Parted, it ha ...

was another graphical front-end based on Qt that is no longer being actively maintained. Pyparted (also called python-parted) is the Python front-end for GNU Parted.

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s that come with parted by default include

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, Knoppix, sidux, SystemRescueCD, and Parted Magic.

Limitations

Parted previously had support for operating on filesystems within partitions (creating, moving, resizing, copying). This support was removed in version 3.0.parted 3.0 release notes
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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gnu Parted Free partitioning software

Parted GNU Parted (from ''GNU Project, GNU partition editor'') is a Free software, free partition editor, used for creating and deleting Partition (computing), partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard di ...