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Encyclopedia > GNU Parted
GNU Parted
Developer: Various
Latest release: 1.8.6 / Mar 20, 2007
OS: Linux
Use: Disk partitioning
License: GPL
Website: gnu.org/software/parted/

GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. 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. Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... In computer engineering, hard disk drive partitioning is the creation of logical divisions upon a hard disk that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... In computer engineering, hard disk drive partitioning is the creation of logical divisions upon a hard disk that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting. ... In computing, a file system (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A disk image is a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage medium or device, such as a CD. The term has been generalized to cover any such file, whether taken from an actual physical storage device or not. ... Andrew Clausen is an Australian Free software developer and economist. ...


It consists of a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, that also serves as reference implementation.


Currently, Parted runs only under GNU/Linux, GNU Hurd and BeOS. Unix systems filiation. ... The GNU Hurd (usually referred to as the Hurd) is a computer operating system kernel. ... BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. ...

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Graphical versions

GParted and QtParted are graphical programs using the parted libraries. They are adapted for GTK+ and Qt, respectively, two major toolkits used for Graphical Linux and Hurd installations. They are often included as utilities on many live CD distributions to make partitioning easier. GParted stands for GNOME Partition Editor. ... QtParted is a program for Linux which is used for creating, destroying, resizing and managing partitions. ... Gnoppix 0. ...


Some Linux distributions that come with this application are Knoppix and SystemRescueCd. It has been suggested that Linux be merged into this article or section. ... Knoppix, also spelled as KNOPPIX, is a computer operating system which can be used as a live CD. It is a Debian based Linux distribution, developed by Linux consultant Klaus Knopper. ... SystemRescueCD is a version of the Linux computer operating system on a bootable CD-ROM disc (a LiveCD), useful for repairing unbootable systems and retrieving data after a system crash. ...


Limitations

Unfortunately, Parted has some limitations. One of them is that it cannot resize NTFS partitions without external tools, such as the ntfsprogs package. That means that one has to use a combination of a program to repair hard disk errors before parted if one wants to repartition a damaged hard disk. To overcome this limitation, many rescue discs include all the required utilities in one bootable CD, enabling resizing of most filesystems. NTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. ...


Other current limitations are that it cannot handle the extended attributes of the ext2fs, for instance, those related to SElinux. This extended attributes should have to be removed to resize partitions with parted. The ext2 or second extended file system is a file system for the Linux kernel. ... Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a version of the Linux kernel and utilities, which contains support for mandatory access controls based on the principle of least privilege. ...


See also

Free software Portal

Image File history File links Portal. ... Many partition table manipulators are known as fdisk. ... cfdisk is a curses-based disk partition table manipulator for Linux. ... PartitionMagic is a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by the PowerQuest corporation but now owned by Symantec. ... FIPS is a DOS program for non-destructive splitting of hard disk partitions. ... GParted stands for GNOME Partition Editor. ... The GIMP Toolkit—abbreviated, and almost exclusively known, as GTK+—is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System for creating graphical user interfaces. ... QtParted is a program for Linux which is used for creating, destroying, resizing and managing partitions. ... In computer programming, Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, widely used for the development of GUI programs, and, since the release of Qt 4, also used for developing non-GUI programs such as console tools and servers. ...

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Parted - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) (702 words)
GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
When released, all version of GNU Parted can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ or one of the mirrors.
Parted's documentation is available here in English and Japanese (old version).
GNU Parted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (265 words)
GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, copying data between hard disks and disk imaging.
GNU Parted's web page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html and may be downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ or one of the mirrors.
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