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GParted (GNOME Partition Editor) is a free partition editor for graphically managing disk partitions. It is included in some flavors of Ubuntu by default and is available in repositories.

GNOME Partition Editor is a graphical tool for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. It uses libparted from the parted project to detect and manipulate partition tables. It must be run with root privileges.

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Features:

  • Create partition tables (e.g. MSDOS, GPT)
  • Create, delete, copy, resize, move, check, set new UUID, or label partitions
  • Manipulate btrfs, ext2/3/4, f2fs, FAT16/32, hfs/hfs+, linux-swap, lvm2 pv, nilfs2, NTFS, reiserfs/4, ufs, and xfs file systems
  • 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, Linux software RAID
  • Supports all sector sizes (e.g. 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors)

GParted is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2

Supported features

Source/website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/

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Why can't I create a partition table on my USB flash drive using GParted?

I have a blank USB flash drive I want to put a new filesystem on. If I try adding a new partition it complains "No partition table found on device /dev/sdc". Creating a msdos partition table seems to work correctly, except that when I go to add a…
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Why does GParted force 1Mb "Free Space Preceeding"?

I installed and opened GParted. I attempted to format a USB stick and discovered it forces a 1Mb "Free space preceeding". Why is this?
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How safe is GParted when resizing Linux and Windows partitions?

I want to resize my partitions: I have 3 partitions: Ubuntu 10.04 Windows Seven Ubuntu 11.10 It's booting with the boot installed by the Ubuntu 11.10 version. I want to expand (only expand) all the 3 partitions. My HD is 1,8 Tb so it's big and I…
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Warning image in Gparted

Suddenly I have got a warning symbol (at /dev/sda2 partition) in my gparted display. What does it mean? What's wrong with my HDD? Help me correct it.
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Cannot move swap space

This has been asked here, Why I'm seeing a lock besides the partition I'm trying to modify with gparted?, but I'm having problems. These two partitions both have ext4 as their file system. They are both unmounted. Swap space is swapped off: I want…
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E2FSCK: how to handle the "metadata_csum" error by advancing the e2fsck version beyond default installed version

Disclaimer This post has been marked as a duplicate of this post. It should be noted that @DavidFoerster has update his code to a functional solution - but you must be careful to download the right packages. The purpose of this post is to explain…
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unallocated space within partition

150.00 GiB of unallocated space within the partition. To grow the file system to fill the partition, select the partition and choose the menu item: Partition --> Check. (I can't click on the check option) I got this warning after my pc accidentally…
Dev Aggarawal
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Gparted Shows %100 used disk

I have installed clean Ubuntu on my ssd disk and I tried create a partition with gparted but it shows my disk usage %100. Is it bug ?
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Unallocated small chunks being created in GParted when resizing partitions

This might seem very trivial. Whenever I am resizing/deleting partitions in GParted Partition Editor there are always these 1.00 MiB unallocated chunks being created in between which is giving me difficulties when I am trying to merge two partitions…
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Creating a new partition in Ubuntu 14.04

I am a new user for ubuntu and my hard disk had been formatted I need to create a new partition to copy my backup on
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How can I add space from unallocated to extended?

I have a 12 GB partition with Linux installed in it, but I started runnung out of space. I tried to use gparted on a CD, but for some reason, I could not add space to the extended partition. This is what my partition table looks like: /dev/sda3 …
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Red exclamation mark when attempting to resize HDD - gparted

I'm unable to shrink Windows partition using gparted live CD. The partition filesystem is NTFS. Windows 7 is on it and boots fine. Gparted information dialog gives the following: Status - unmounted ERROR - the disk has at least 19 bad sectors Run…
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Resizing my ubuntu ext4 partition

Possible Duplicate: Resize partition with GParted I want to resize my ubuntu sda5 partition (basically merge it with the unallocated 87 GB space). but the Resize/move option for sda5 is not working / enabled in gparted. Appreciate response in lay…
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Can't resize dev/sda3 on gparted

I really don't know how to do this. I was on dual boot windows/ubuntu but I want to extend ubuntu's partition, so I uninstalled windows on sda2. Now I have nothing I need on /dev/sda2 but I can't get sda3 to extend. Can someone enlighten me? Thanks…
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How to resize the / partition

Current state of affairs: I'm trying to add space to sd6, using all the unused space in sda3 (where windows is). I read through a problem someone uploaded on here that seemed similar- and I think I need to delete the swap and then re-create it but…
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