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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- partition editor
- Part of
- The GNOME Project
- Official website
- gparted-forum.surf4.info
- Image
- GParted 1.3.1 screenshot.png
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- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- GParted
- software version identifier
- 1.8.1
- operating system
- GNU/Linux
- inception
- 2004-08-26
- programmed in
- C++
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted.git
- issue tracker URL
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted/-/issues
- GUI toolkit or framework
- GTK
- depends on software
- GNU Parted
- mailing list archive URL
- sourceforge.net/p/gparted/mailman/gparted-devel
- user manual URL
- gparted.org/documentation.php
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.gnome.org/gparted
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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.