GParted
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GParted is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, 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.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- Scalable gparted.svg
- Software.screenshot
- GParted 1.3.1 screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- GParted 1.3.1 showing a GPT-partitioned hard disk
- Software.screenshot_size
- 300px
- Software.developer
- GParted developers
- Software.programming language
- C++ (gtkmm)
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.genre
- Partition editor
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-or-later
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Background
- Supported features
- Cloning with GParted
- See also
- References
GParted is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, 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.
== Background ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GParted” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.