About:
GNU Parted is a package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which also serves as a sample implementation and script backend.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
libparted now handles sector_size correctly (as long long), and labels' probe functions now return immediately negative if the device's logical sector size is not equal to 512 and only 512 is supported. parted falls back to the old signal API for operating systems without sigaction().

Author:
David Cantrell [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.44/10.00 (15 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Changelog:
http://svn.debian.org/[..]am/tags/1.7.0rc5/NEWS?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/parted/upstream/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Filesystems, System :: Installation/Setup

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default Stable	1.8.8	10-Aug-2007	GNU General Public License v3
Development	1.5.0	31-Jan-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Old/Stable	1.4.24	29-Jan-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Release Candidates	1.7.0rc5	25-Apr-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.7.0rc5	Major bugfixes	25-Apr-2006 00:46
1.7.0rc4	Major bugfixes	07-Apr-2006 08:09
1.7.0rc3	Minor bugfixes	02-Apr-2006 15:28
1.7.0rc2	Minor bugfixes	02-Apr-2006 08:15
1.7.0rc1	Major feature enhancements	22-Mar-2006 08:57

 Comments

[»] Can we merge partitions?
by Tim - Nov 22nd 2003 17:07:00

I have Red Hat 5.0 and I want to get Linux From Scratch installed. My hard disk is laid out like this:

/dev/hda1 = Microfat-DOS 6.22
/dev/hdb1 = Home dir
/dev/hdb2 = Swap
/dev/hdb3 = Red Hat Linux 5.0 (About 300 MB.)
/dev/hdb4 = Future LFS (About 800 MB.)

After I get LFS installed I want to merge or outher wise re-use my Red Hat partition.
Is it possable to use GNU Parted to merge them together?

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[»] Thanks!
by erik postma - Jun 27th 2002 06:51:47

Great program! The following just happened to me while moving my root partition to reiserfs: I first shrunk the ext2 filesystem and the partition it's on to make space for a new partition to temporarily store the contents of / while I changed / to reiserfs, then moved it all back to /, deleted the temporary partition and then finally wanted to resize / back to its original size. I don't know why but parted didn't want to change the size of the partition with resize just because it can't handle reiserfs sufficiently well. So I decided that I'd use cfdisk for this last step instead. Wrong! I ended up with an unusable partition. Fortunately parted has a `rescue partition' option which in my case actually worked! So I'm typing this off my newly rescued partition. Thanks!

Now I just got to figure out a way to resize the partition. Resizing the filesystem afterwards ought not to be much of a problem (with resize_reiserfs).

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[»] NTFS Support
by whetphish - Dec 8th 2001 08:29:20

How's about implementing NTFS support?

Nick.

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-- whetphish

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[»] Re: Any Feedback?
by Hugo Cisneiros - Dec 21st 2000 23:15:56

I just tested it and it worked just fine :) I resized my Linux partition and create others... like another ext2 and one FAT. So I think it is secure... The only problem that I found was the bad interface with the user. I wonder if there's a nice frontend or something like that to this program.

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[»] Re: Any Feedback?
by A.Barros - Apr 17th 2001 00:14:53


> I wonder if
> there's a nice frontend or something
> like that to this program.
i guess nParted
( http://freshmeat.net/projects/nparted/ )
is what you are looking for...


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[»] Any Feedback?
by n3v - Mar 27th 2000 20:55:57

Hi, I was just wondering how successful this was. I need to shrink an existing ext2 filesystem and give the extra space to an existing FAT32 partition. (Games are just getting too damn big) If you have done something similar please drop me a note. Thanks!

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[»] Re: Any Feedback?
by Petter - Feb 5th 2001 08:04:11


> Hi, I was just wondering how successful
> this was. I need to shrink an existing I shrunk (sp?) my root partition using the bootdisk with parted that is available from gnu.org. If it's not your root partition you don't have to get the boot disk.. Anyway, it worked like a charm, this is an excellent piece of software!

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