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GPARTED
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Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and
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deleting disk partitions.
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A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These
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partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the
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adjacent one larger.) Gparted makes it possible for you to take a
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hard disk and change the partition organization, while preserving the
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partition contents.
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More specifically, Gparted enables you to create, destroy, resize,
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move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems
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contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating
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systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with
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another (disk imaging).
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Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks,
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such as USB flash drives, and memory cards.
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Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more information.
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NEWS
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Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be
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found in the file:
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NEWS
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INSTALL
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a. Pre-built Binary
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Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary
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package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on
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some distributions is given below:
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(K)Ubuntu
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sudo apt-get install gparted
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Fedora
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su -
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yum install gparted
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b. Building from Source
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Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are
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installed. These include:
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g++
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e2fsprogs
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parted
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gtkmm24
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gettext
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gnome-doc-utils - required if help documentation is to be built
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On (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
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following command;
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sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \
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gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
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libdevmapper-dev gnome-doc-utils
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On Fedora, you will need to run (as root);
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yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \
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perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils
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Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
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configure, build, and install this package. If you wish to build
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this package without the help documentation use the --disable-doc
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flag:
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E.g., ./configure --disable-doc
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The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.
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COPYING
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The copying conditions can be found in the file:
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COPYING
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DIRECTORIES
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compose - contains String::ucompose() function
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data - contains desktop icons
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doc - contains manual page documentation
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help - contains GParted Manual and international translations
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include - contains source header files
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m4 - contains macro files
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po - contains international language translations
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src - contains C++ source code
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DISTRIBUTION NOTES
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Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
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tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
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Optional packages include:
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e2fsprogs
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dosfstools
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mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels
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hfsutils
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hfsprogs
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jfsutils
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ntfsprogs
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reiser4progs
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reiserfsprogs
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xfsprogs
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NOTE: * If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be used
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to read linux-swap, reiser4, hfs, and hfs+ file system
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volume labels.
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* If the blkid command is in the search path, it will be used
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to read file system UUIDs and labels. It is also used for
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ext4 file detection.
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blkid is part of the e2fsprogs package.
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For Linux software RAID support, the following package is required:
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mdadm - tool to administer Linux MD arrays
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For dmraid support, the following packages are required:
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dmsetup - removes /dev/mapper entries
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dmraid - lists dmraid devices and creates /dev/mapper entries
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kpartx - creates /dev/mapper entries such as
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/dev/mapper/isw_idedecefg_Volume0p1
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For GNU/Linux distribution dmraid support, the following are required:
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- kernel built with Device Mapping and Mirroring built. From menuconfig,
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it is under Device Drivers -> <something> (RAID & LVM).
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- dmraid drive arrays activated on boot (e.g., dmraid -ay).
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Several more commands are optionally used by GParted if found on the system.
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These commands include:
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blkid - used to read volume labels and detect ext4 file systems
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vol_id - used to read volume labels
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udisks - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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devkit-disks - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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hal-lock - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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gksu - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file,
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but only if available when gparted source is configured.
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udevinfo - used in dmraid to query udev name
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udevadm - used in dmraid to query udev name
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