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82 lines
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.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Curtis Gedak.
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.\" This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
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.\" the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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.\" There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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.\"
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.\" groff -man -Tascii gparted.8
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.\"
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.TH GPARTED 8 "APRIL 14th, 2008" gparted "GParted Manual"
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.SH NAME
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gparted \- Front-end to parted for manipulating disk partitions
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B gparted [device]...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B gparted
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is the Gnome Partition Editor
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for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
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A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions.
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These partitions are normally not re-sizable
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(making one smaller and the adjacent one larger.)
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.B gparted
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makes it possible for you to take a hard disk
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and change the partition organization,
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while preserving the partition contents.
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More specifically,
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.B gparted
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enables you to create, destroy, resize, move,
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check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within.
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This is useful for
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creating space for new operating systems,
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reorganizing disk usage,
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and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
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.B gparted
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uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables.
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Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
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Optional packages include:
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e2fsprogs, dosfstools, mtools, hfsutils, jfsutils,
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.br
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ntfsprogs, reiser4progs, reiserfsprogs, and xfsprogs.
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.B gparted
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can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks, such as
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USB flash drives, and memory cards.
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More documentation and links to the support forum and bug reports can be found at:
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.br
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net
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.SH EXAMPLES
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For a hard drive attached as /dev/sda,
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.B gparted
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can be instructed to limit operations to this drive only with the
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following:
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.B gparted
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/dev/sda
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This can save time with subsequent device refreshes, such as after
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operations are applied.
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.SH NOTES
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When resizing a logical partition within an extended partition,
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remember that each portion is resized independently.
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Hence shrinking the left-most logical partition
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by moving the left edge to the right will shrink only the logical
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partition. If you desire to free the space for an adjacent primary
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partition, then you must also shrink the extended partition.
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.SH REPORTING BUGS
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Report bugs at:
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.br
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/bugs.php
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.SH AUTHOR
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Written by Curtis Gedak <gedakc@users.sf.net>
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR parted (8),
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.BR fdisk (8),
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.BR mkfs (8),
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.BR ntfsprogs (8)
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