GPARTED ======= Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger.) Gparted makes it possible for you to take a hard disk and change the partition organization, while preserving the partition contents. More specifically, Gparted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks, such as USB flash drives, and memory cards. Visit http://gparted.org for more information. LICENSING --------- GParted is released under the General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. (GPLv2+). All files are released under the GPLv2+ unless explicitly licensed otherwise. The GParted Manual is released under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or any later version. (GFDLv1.2+). See these files for more details: COPYING - GNU General Public License version 2 COPYING-DOCS - GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 NEWS ---- Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be found in the file: NEWS INSTALL ------- a. Pre-built Binary Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on some distributions is given below: Debian or Ubuntu ---------------- sudo apt-get install gparted Fedora or CentOS/RHEL --------------------- su - yum install gparted OpenSUSE -------- sudo zypper install gparted b. Building from Source Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are installed. These include: g++ e2fsprogs parted gtkmm24 gettext gnome-doc-utils - required if help documentation is to be built On Debian or Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running one of the following commands: Either; sudo apt-get build-dep gparted Or; sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \ gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \ libdevmapper-dev gnome-doc-utils docbook-xml On Fedora, you will need to run (as root); yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \ 'perl(XML::Parser)' desktop-file-utils libuuid-devel \ gnome-doc-utils docbook-dtds rarian-compat intltool \ gcc-c++ yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' On openSUSE, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following commands; sudo zypper install automake autoconf make gnome-common \ libuuid-devel parted-devel gtkmm2-devel \ gnome-doc-utils-devel docbook-xsl-stylesheets sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_c_c++ Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should configure, build, and install this package. If you wish to build this package without the help documentation use the --disable-doc flag: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc If you wish to build this package for use on a desktop that does not support scrollkeeper use the --disable-scrollkeeper flag: E.g., ./configure --disable-scrollkeeper If you wish to build this package to use native libparted /dev/mapper dmraid support use the --enable-libparted-dmraid flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-libparted-dmraid If you wish to build this package with online resize support then the following is required: a) A version of libparted that includes the online resize patch. At time of writing (November 2013), this patch was only included in Debian and derived distros with parted package version 2.3-14 or higher. b) Linux kernel version 3.6 or higher. Enable with the --enable-online-resize flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-online-resize Please note that more than one configure flag can be used: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc --enable-libparted-dmraid The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions. DIRECTORIES ------------ compose - contains String::ucompose() function data - contains desktop icons doc - contains manual page documentation help - contains GParted Manual and international translations include - contains source header files m4 - contains macro files po - contains international language translations src - contains C++ source code DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------ Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support. Optional packages include: btrfs-tools e2fsprogs f2fs-tools dosfstools mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs hfsutils hfsprogs jfsutils nilfs-utils ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g reiser4progs reiserfsprogs xfsprogs, xfsdump NOTE: * If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be used to read linux-swap, reiser4, hfs, and hfs+ file system volume labels. * If the blkid command is in the search path, it will be used to read file system UUIDs and labels. It is also used for ext4 file system detection. blkid is part of the util-linux package and e2fsprogs package before that. For dmraid support, the following packages are required: dmsetup - removes /dev/mapper entries dmraid - lists dmraid devices and creates /dev/mapper entries For GNU/Linux distribution dmraid support, the following are required: - kernel built with Device Mapping and Mirroring built. From menuconfig, it is under Device Drivers -> (RAID & LVM). - dmraid drive arrays activated on boot (e.g., dmraid -ay). For LVM2 Physical Volume support the following command is required: lvm - LVM2 administration tool And device-mapper support in the kernel. For attempt data rescue for lost partitions, the following package is required: gpart - guesses PC-type hard disk partitions Several more commands are optionally used by GParted if found on the system. These commands include: blkid - used to read volume labels and detect ext4 file systems vol_id - used to read volume labels udisks - used to prevent automounting of file systems devkit-disks - used to prevent automounting of file systems {filemanager} - used in attempt data rescue to display discovered file systems. (e.g., nautilus, pcmanfm) hal-lock - used to prevent automounting of file systems gksudo - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file, but only if available when gparted source is configured. gksu - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksu not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. kdesudo - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksudo and gksu not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. xdg-su - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksudo, gksu, and kdesudo are not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. udevinfo - used in dmraid to query udev name udevadm - used in dmraid to query udev name yelp - used to display help manual