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GPARTED
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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 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, hfsutils, jfsutils,
ntfsprogs, reiser4progs, reiserfsprogs, and xfsprogs.
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
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Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be
found in the file:
NEWS
INSTALL
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Installation instructions can be found in the file:
INSTALL
COPYING
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The copying conditions can be found in the file:
COPYING
DIRECTORIES
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compose - contains String::ucompose() function
doc - contains manual page documentation
include - contains source header files
pixmaps - contains desktop icon
po - contains international language translations
src - contains C++ source code
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
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The following notes are intended to assist GNU/Linux distribution
packagers. More information on GParted features can be found at:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
GParted Dependencies:
libparted
libuuid
libdl
libgtkmm
Optional (suggested) packages:
e2fsprogs
dosfstools
mtools
hfsutils
jfsutils
ntfsprogs
reiser4progs
reiserfsprogs
xfsprogs
NOTE: If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be
used to read linux-swap volume labels.