GNU Parted (the name being the conjunction of the two words PARTition and EDitor) is a free

partition editor A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte-levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, the ...

, 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 library, libparted, and a

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front-end, parted, that also serves as a reference implementation. , GNU Parted runs only under

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and

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Hurd GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, an ...

Other front-ends

nparted is the

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-based frontend to GNU Parted. Projects have started for an

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frontend, that also could be used in Windows (with

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Ncurses). fatresize offers a

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for FAT16/

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non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library.

Graphical front-ends

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

and

KDE Partition Manager KDE Partition Manager is a disk partitioning application originally written by Volker Lanz for the KDE Platform. It was first released for KDE SC 4.1 and is released independently of the central KDE release cycle. After the death of Volker Lan ...

are graphical programs using the parted libraries. They are adapted for

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and KDE respectively; two major

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s for Unix-like installations. They are often included as utilities on many

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distributions to make partitioning easier.

QtParted QtParted is a Qt4 front-end to GNU Parted and the official KDE Partition Editor application besides KDE Partition Manager. QtParted is a program for Linux which is used for creating, destroying, resizing and managing partitions. It uses the ...

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 this application by default include

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Knoppix KNOPPIX ( ) is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD ( Live CD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB), one of the first live operating system distributions (just after Yggdrasil Linux). Knoppix was develop ...

, sidux, SystemRescueCD, and

Parted Magic Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution based on Slackware that comes with disk partitioning and data recovery tools. It is sold as a Linux-based bootable disk. The distribution's nomenclature is derived from the names of the GNU Parted ...

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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gnu Parted Free partitioning software

Parted GNU Parted (the name being the conjunction of the two words PARTition and EDitor) is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, ...

Software using the GPL license

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Graphical front-ends

Limitations

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