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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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How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume)

I want to shrink my second (LVM) partition, in order to create a new partition in the newly freed space. I am using the Live CD to do so, because I know I can't resize/move this partition while it is in use. When I opened GParted in the Live CD, I…
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"physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512" when formatting USB - How to create a bootable USB without this error

I was using: dd if=/path/to/my/ubuntuiso/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M && sync In order to create bootable Ubuntu USB drives on older Ubuntu versions. It was working perfectly. Sometimes I used the Startup Disk Creator program, which worked…
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How can I quickly copy a GPT partition scheme from one hard drive to another?

On a non GPT partition table I can do sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb. But sfdisk doesn't support GPT partition tables. What can I use instead? I'm looking for a one or two command solution, not just using GNU parted to output the partition…
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How to extend my root (/) partition?

Till today I was using ubuntu 13.04 in my windows7/ubuntu dual boot. Just now I have upgraded to ubuntu 14.04. My software updater showed an updates available message. I proceeded with Install Now . Soon I got the following window. Then I tried…
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Why is exfat greyed out in gparted?

I have installed both exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. However, when I go to gparted, and attempt to format a partition as exFAT, the exfat option is greyed out when attempting to create or format a partition. Why is this so? How can I use gparted to…
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How to fix "Partition does not start on physical sector boundary" warning?

I have one HDD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap). fdisk is giving me the following warning: Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary What is the cause and do I need to fix it? If so,…
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How to mount partition permanently?

I am using Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE. I am wondering how can I auto-mount a partition (internal) on boot automatically. Currently I do something like mount /dev/sda3 /media/works But I want it to be permanent. Also I have GParted, but the Partition >…
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How do I check whether I am using LVM?

I installed Ubuntu by choosing the option "Something else" at the step called "Allocate drive space" of the installer. Then I created my own partition table. Now that Ubuntu is installed, can I check whether I am using LVM for my volumes ? In…
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Why is it that I am unable to format my pendrive in exfat using gparted?

When I go to Gparted and try to format my pendrive to exfat,the option is greyed out and I am not able to select it however I can choose other file systems such as ext4,ntfs,etc. Why is that ?
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Can't format / delete locked partition from GParted?

I can't format my hard disk for Ubuntu installation. It has Fedora installed in it. I wonder how to unlock the locked partition to delete and format it, since I am stuck at installing Ubuntu. I am now using a live CD to do the task. No options are…
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How can I modify the size of swap with LVM partitions?

I'm trying to add/modify a swap partition on my LVM-formatted hard disk by using GParted from a LiveCD. I only see one big partition taking up the whole disk. Is there a hidden swap? Does an LVM-formatted system even need a swap? I'm using…
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Why I'm seeing a lock besides the partition I'm trying to modify with gparted?

I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) partition to fill up the created unallocated space. A…
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GParted - Cannot open display

I just installed gparted because I have a 135 GB flash drive that I want to use for bootables for different OSs. After I installed gparted and opened it from the Dash, I got the prompt for my password, entered it, the window closed, cursor turned…
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How to prepare a disk on an EFI based PC for Ubuntu?

My computer has UEFI based BIOS and I want to start over from scratch. The PC came with Windows installed - I later installed Ubuntu alongside. I want to completely re-build my whole disk and install only Ubuntu on it. So it is not about how to…
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How to shrink Ubuntu LVM logical and physical volumes?

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 as the only OS on my system. I told Ubuntu to overwrite everything as I was in a hurry, hence I only have the two partitions Ubuntu creates, the Boot Partition of a couple a hundred MB, and then everything else. The…
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