GNU Parted (from GNU partition editor) is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It was written by Andrew Clausen and Lennert Buytenhek.
 The parted command | |
| Original author(s) | Andrew Clausen, Lennert Buytenhek |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Various |
| Stable release | 3.6[1] 
/ 11 April 2023 |
| Repository | GNU Parted Repository |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, GNU Hurd |
| Type | Partition editor |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
It consists of a library, libparted, and a command-line front-end, parted, that also serves as a reference implementation.
Currently[update], GNU Parted runs only under Linux and GNU/Hurd.[2]
Other front-ends
editText-based
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nparted is the newt-based frontend to GNU Parted.[3]
Projects have started for an ncurses frontend,[4] that also could be used in Windows (with GNUWin32 Ncurses).[5]
fatresize offers a command-line interface for FAT16/FAT32 non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library.[6]
Graphical front-ends
editGParted is a graphical program using the parted libraries. It is adapted for GNOME, one of the two major desktop environments (the other being KDE) for Unix-like installations. It is often included as utility on many live CD distributions to make partitioning easier.
KDE Partition Manager is a Qt graphical program, also included on many live CD distributions, which made use of parted libraries; anyway, in version 4.0 its backend, KPMcore, was ported away from libparted to sfdisk.[7] QtParted was another graphical front-end based on Qt that is no longer being actively maintained.
Pyparted[8] (also called python-parted)[9] is the Python front-end for GNU Parted.
Linux distributions that come with parted by default include Slackware, Knoppix, sidux, SystemRescueCD, and Parted Magic.
Limitations
editParted previously had support for operating on filesystems within partitions (creating, moving, resizing, copying). This support was removed in version 3.0.[10]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Brian C. Lane (11 April 2023). "[parted-devel] parted-3.6 released [stable]". Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ GNU Parted supported platforms
- ^ Overview of nparted source package
- ^ cparted - ncurses interface in python/pyparted
- ^ Ncurses
- ^ SourceForge.net: fatresize
- ^ "KDE Partition Manager 4.0". stikonas.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ^ pyparted – Python bindings for GNU parted (libparted) github page
- ^ python-parted package in Ubuntu dapper
- ^ parted 3.0 release notes
External links
edit- Official website
- – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual