| GNU Parted | |
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 The parted command and example of disk partition information | |
| Original authors | Andrew Clausen, Lennert Buytenhek |
| Developer | Various |
| Stable release | 3.6[1]  / 11 April 2023 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux,GNU Hurd |
| Type | Partition editor |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
| Repository | GNU Parted Repository |
GNU Parted (fromGNU partition editor) is afreepartition editor, used for creating and deletingpartitions. This is useful for creating space for newoperating systems, reorganisinghard disk usage, copying data between hard disks, anddisk imaging. It was written by Andrew Clausen and Lennert Buytenhek.
It consists of alibrary,libparted, and acommand-linefront-end,parted, that also serves as areference implementation.
Currently[update], GNU Parted runs only underLinux andGNU/Hurd.[2]
nparted is thenewt-based frontend to GNU Parted.[3]
Projects have started for anncurses frontend,[4] that also could be used in Windows (withGNUWin32 Ncurses).[5]
fatresize offers acommand-line interface forFAT16/FAT32 non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library.[6]
tparted is theTV/FV-based frontend for GNU Parted.[7]
GParted is a graphical program using the parted libraries. It is adapted forGNOME, one of the two majordesktop environments (the other beingKDE) for Unix-like installations. It is often included as utility on manylive CD distributions to make partitioning easier.
KDE Partition Manager is aQt graphical program, also included on many live CD distributions, which made use of parted libraries; in version 4.0 its backend KPMcore was ported away from libparted to sfdisk.[8]QtParted was another graphical front-end based on Qt that is no longer being actively maintained.
Pyparted[9] (also called python-parted)[10] is thePython front-end for GNU Parted.
Linux distributions that come with parted by default includeSlackware[11],Knoppix[12],sidux[citation needed],SystemRescueCD[13],Parted Magic[14], andGParted Live[15].
Parted previously had support for operating on filesystems within partitions (creating, moving, resizing, copying). This support was removed in version 3.0.[16]
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