GParted, the quintessential Gnome partition editor, provides a graphical interface that uses libparted and other tools to manipulate filesystems, from Btrfs to XFS and most filesystems in between.
GParted, the quintessential Gnome partition editor, provides a graphical interface that uses libparted and other tools to manipulate filesystems, from Btrfs to XFS and most filesystems in between. GParted also allows you to:
Align partitions to mebibyte or cylinder boundaries
Attempt data rescue from lost partitions
Enable and disable partition flags
Create, delete, copy, resize, move, check, and set new UUIDs
Create partition tables
GParted can be used on x86 and x86-64 computers running Linux, Windows, or Mac OS with a minimum 256MB of RAM.
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