KDE Partition Manager is a disk partitioning application originally written by Volker Lanz for the
KDE Platform
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. It was first released for
KDE SC 4.1 and is released independently of the central KDE release cycle. After the death of Volker Lanz in April 2014,
Andrius Štikonas continued the development and took over as the maintainer.
It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying
partitions
Partition may refer to:
Computing Hardware
* Disk partitioning, the division of a hard disk drive
* Memory partition, a subdivision of a computer's memory, usually for use by a single job
Software
* Partition (database), the division of a ...
, and the
file system
In computing, file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to fs) is a method and data structure that the operating system uses to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, data placed in a storage medium would be one larg ...
s on them. 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). Additionally, KDE Partition Manager can back up file systems to files and restore such backups.
It uses
util-linux
is a standard package distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization for use as part of the Linux operating system. A fork, (with meaning "next generation"), was created when development stalled, but has been renamed back to , and is the offic ...
to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for manipulating file systems. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of KDE Partition Manager.
As is the case with most KDE applications, KDE Partition Manager is written in the
C++
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programming language
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The description of a programming ...
and uses the
Qt GUI toolkit. Released under the
GNU General Public License
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, KDE Partition Manager is
free software
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.
Release history
See also
*
Disk partitioning
Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk ...
*
List of disk partitioning software
This is a list of utilities
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Notes
References
External links
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News about KDE Partition Manager on the blog of Andrius ŠtikonasThe KDE Partition Manager HandbookThe source code of KDE Partition ManagerKDE Partition Manager release source code downloadsKDE Partition Manager on linux-apps.org
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Extragear
Free partitioning software
KDE Applications