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.sourceforge.net for more information. 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: (K)Ubuntu --------- sudo apt-get install gparted Fedora ------ su - yum 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 (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following command; sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \ gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \ libdevmapper-dev On Fedora, you will need to run (as root); yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \ perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils 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 The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions. COPYING ------- The copying conditions can be found in the file: COPYING 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: e2fsprogs dosfstools mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels hfsutils hfsprogs jfsutils ntfsprogs reiser4progs reiserfsprogs xfsprogs 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 detection. blkid is part of the e2fsprogs package. For Linux software RAID support, the following package is required: mdadm - tool to administer Linux MD arrays For dmraid support, the following packages are required: dmsetup - removes /dev/mapper entries dmraid - lists dmraid devices and creates /dev/mapper entries kpartx - creates /dev/mapper entries such as /dev/mapper/isw_idedecefg_Volume0p1 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). 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 devkit-disks - used to prevent automounting of file systems hal-lock - used to prevent automounting of file systems