GParted Partition Editor installation on Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/OpenSUSE linux distributions

GParted Partition Editor is a free software used to edit partitions of the disk. It is the best GUI front end tool for disk partition edition. It can support nearly all types of file formats. There are many disk partition editors are available. But GParted performs well compare to all and it have multiple number of features to perform on the disk. Check the features below,

Features

• It Performs following Actions with file systems :
  

  check
  set new UUID
  label
  copy and paste
  create or delete
  resize or move

  
  
• It Manipulates Following type of file systems on partitioning the disk :
  
  

  ufs
  xfs
  btrfs
  ext2 / ext3 / ext4
  linux-swap
  nilfs2
  ntfs
  lvm2 pv
  fat16 / fat32
  hfs / hfs+
  reiserfs / reiser4

Also some add ons are explicitly developed to provide more features to
users. Let we will see about installation.

Step 1 : Open Terminal and enter the following command to install GParted partition Editor

For Ubuntu/Debian users...

sudo apt-get install gparted

For Fedora users...

su -c "yum install gparted"

For OpenSUSE users...

sudo zypper install gparted

Step 2 : Now if you like to use all other features, just install following ad-dons.

For Ubuntu/Debian users...

Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool 

sudo apt-get install dmraid

Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions

sudo apt-get install gpart

Utilities for managing the JFS filesystem

sudo apt-get install jfsutils

Create device mappings for partitions

sudo apt-get install kpartx

Administration utilities for the Reiser4 filesystem

sudo apt-get install reiser4progs

User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystem

sudo apt-get install reiserfsprogs

Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem

sudo apt-get install xfsprogs

These add-ons helps to users to complete their tasks in efficient way.

Note : Before the partitioning the disk, take backup for your safeness.


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