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 GNU Parted 1.8.6 (Default)
Section: Unix

 

Added: Sun, Sep 19th 1999 21:29 UTC (9 years, 2 months ago) Updated: Thu, Aug 9th 2007 23:02 UTC (1 year, 3 months ago)


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: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This release addresses a problem with the linux-swap filesystem type. A change was introduced that created the linux-swap(new) and linux-swap(old) filesystem types. This change is still present in the development branch, but deemed not appropriate for the stable tree, so this release has reverted to the previous usage of 'linux-swap' as the filesystem type to maintain compatibility with other projects.

Author:
David Cantrell [contact developer]

Rating:
8.44/10.00 (15 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.8.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.8.tar.bz2
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git
Bug tracker:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/bugs.shtml
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel/

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

 
Project admins: [change]
» David Cantrell (Owner)

» Rating: 8.44/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.10% (Rank 1049)
» Popularity: 11.77% (Rank 166)

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   URL hits: 99,078
   Subscribers: 216

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 Branches

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

 Releases

Version Focus Date
1.8.8 Minor bugfixes 10-Aug-2007 06:02
1.8.7 Minor bugfixes 10-May-2007 01:25
1.8.6 Minor bugfixes 20-Mar-2007 21:36
1.8.5 Minor bugfixes 20-Mar-2007 06:24
1.8.4 Minor bugfixes 19-Mar-2007 22:51
1.8.3 Major bugfixes 16-Mar-2007 21:20
1.8.2 Minor bugfixes 12-Jan-2007 21:47
1.8.1 Minor bugfixes 04-Dec-2006 05:42
1.8.0 Minor feature enhancements 17-Nov-2006 19:23
1.7.1 Major bugfixes 28-May-2006 07:33

 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.

--
-- 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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