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

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s, reorganising hard disk 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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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 command-line interface for

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non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library.

Graphical front-ends

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

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front-end for GNU Parted. Linux distributions that come with this application by default include

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, Knoppix, sidux,

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, and

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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 Software using the GPL license

Other front-ends

Graphical front-ends

Limitations

See also

References

External links