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,[3] resizing,[4] moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and their file systems. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). It can also be used to format a USB drive.[5]
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 GParted 1.3.1 showing a GPT-partitioned hard disk | |
| Developer(s) | GParted developers |
|---|---|
| Initial release | August 26, 2004 |
| Stable release | 1.6.0[1] 
/ 26 February 2024 |
| Repository | GParted Repository |
| Written in | C++ (gtkmm), C[2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Partition editor |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | gparted |
Background
editGParted 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 supports the following filesystems: Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS, Linux-swap, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, XFS, and NTFS.[6][7]
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 GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
The GParted project provides a live operating system including GParted which can be written to a Live CD, a Live USB and other media.[8] The operating system is based on Debian. GParted is also available on other Linux live CDs, including recent versions of Puppy, Knoppix, SystemRescueCd[9] and Parted Magic. GParted is preinstalled when booting from "Try Ubuntu" mode on an Ubuntu installation media.
An alternative to this software is GNOME Disks.
Supported features
editGParted 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). The 'copy' field indicates whether GParted is capable of cloning the mentioned filesystem.[7]
| Detect | Read | Create | Grow | Shrink | Move | Copy | Check | Label | UUID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| BitLocker | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Btrfs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| crypt / LUKS[10] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| exFAT[11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| F2FS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| FAT16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FAT32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| HFS+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| JFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| swap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| LVM2 PV | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| NILFS2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| NTFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ReFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Reiser4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| ReiserFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| UFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| XFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ZFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Cloning with GParted
editGParted is capable of cloning by copying and pasting. GParted is not capable of cloning an entire disk, but only one partition at a time. The file system being cloned should not be mounted. GParted clones partitions at the filesystem-level, and as a result is capable of cloning different target-size partitions for the same source, as long as the size of the source filesystem does not exceed the size of the target partition.[12]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "GParted 1.6.0". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "GParted". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
- ^ Carias Stas, Chris Patrick (2021-04-20). "How to Delete Partitions in Linux [Using fdisk and GParted]". It's FOSS. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Hoffman, Chris (2022-08-12). "How to Enlarge a Virtual Machine's Disk in VirtualBox or VMware". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Trevor, Bekolay (2010-05-11). "How to Format a USB Drive in Ubuntu Using GParted". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Timme, Falko. "Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data". Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ a b "GParted Features". Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe (2006-05-18). "A quick look at the GParted live CD". linux.com. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "SystemRescue - Standard partitioning tools". SystemRescue website. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ GParted — News Item 207
- ^ GParted News Item 236
- ^ "Gparted Manual: Copying and Pasting a Partition".
