GParted
Developer(s) | GParted developers |
---|---|
Initial release | August 26, 2004 |
Stable release | 1.6.0[1]
/ 26 February 2024 |
Partition editor | |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | gparted gparted |
GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a
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]
Background
GParted uses
GParted is written in
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
.
The GParted project provides a live operating system including GParted which can be written to a
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
GParted 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 |
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
GParted 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
- Comparison of disk cloning software
- GNU Parted
- GNU GRUB
- KDE Partition Manager
- List of disk partitioning software
- Partition (computing)
References
- ^ "GParted 1.6.0". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ http://www.ohloh.net/p/32097
- ^ 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".
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to GParted.