GParted is a free partition manager that enables you to resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss.

The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. 

A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The gparted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partition.

With gparted you can accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a partition table on a disk device.
• Enable and disable partition flags such as boot and hidden.
• Perform actions with partitions such as create, delete, resize, move, check, label, copy, and paste.

Features

• Create partition tables (e.g., msdos, gpt)
• Perform actions with partitions such as:
  • create or delete, resize or move
  • check
  • label
  • copy and paste
• Manipulate file systems such as:
  • btrfs
  • ext2 / ext3 / ext4
  • fat16 / fat32
  • hfs / hfs+
  • linux-swap
  • ntfs
  • reiserfs / reiser4
  • ufs
  • xfs
  For specific actions supported see detailed features.
• Enable and disable partition flags (e.g., boot, hidden)
• Align partitions to mebibyte (MiB) or cylinder boundaries
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions
• Supports hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID.
• Supports all sector sizes (e.g., 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors)

Requirements.

 

GParted is developed on x86 based computers using GNU/Linux. It can be used on other operating systems, such as Windows or Mac OS X, by booting from media containing GParted Live. 

Installation Instructions.

To install GParted Live on CD, download the .iso file and burn it as an image to a CD.

For other installations, please refer to the following documents:
GParted Live on USB
GParted Live on PXE server
GParted Live on Hard Disk
Create your own custom GParted Live from scratch

Updates:

GParted Live CD/USB/HD/PXE Bootable Image
Download stable releases (.iso/.zip)	Release notes	Changelog	Checksums
Download testing releases (.iso/.zip)	Release notes	Changelog	Checksums

GParted Application Source Code
Download source code (.tar.bz2)	Release notes and checksums in same directory.

Old GParted Live Images (not recommended)
Download old LiveCD (0.0.9-alpha1 to 0.3.4-11) releases
Download old LiveUSB (0.2.5-2 to 0.3.1-1) releases

GParted enables you to easily manage your disk partitions:

• Create partition tables, (e.g., msdos or gpt)
• Create, move, copy, resize, check, label, and delete partitions
• Enable and disable partition flags, (e.g., boot or hidden)
• Align partitions to mebibyte (MiB) or traditional cylinder boundaries
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

GParted works with the following storage devices:

• Hard disk drives (e.g., SATA, IDE, and SCSI)
• Flash memory devices, such as USB memory sticks and Solid State Drives (SSD's)
• RAID Devices (hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID)
• All sector sizes (e.g., devices with 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors and more)

GParted supports the following actions on file systems:

 

File system	Detect	Read	Create	Grow	Shrink	Move	Copy	Check	Label	Required software
btrfs										btrfs-tools
crypt-luks
ext2										e2fsprogs
ext3										e2fsprogs
ext4										e2fsprogs v1.41+
fat16										dosfstools
fat32										dosfstools
hfs										hfsutils
hfs+										hfsprogs
jfs										jfsutils
linux-swap										util-linux
lvm2 pv
ntfs										ntfsprogs
reiser4										reiser4progs
reiserfs										reiserfsprogs
ufs
xfs										xfsprogs

Screenshots.

GParted main screen.

 

 
Main screen with disk information panel. 

 
Another look at the main window. 

Information about a specific partition.

 
A closer look at the resize/move dialog. 

 
The progress dialog. 

   

Create a new partition dialog. 

 

Create partition table dialog. 

 

Features list. 

 

Manage flags dialog.

 

GParted Live boot menu. 

Custom Search

 

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