GParted Live 1.6 Stable Released: disk partitioning tool

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GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. It uses libparted from the parted project to detect and manipulate partition tables. Optional file system tools permit managing file systems not included in libparted.

GParted is a very compact self-starting CD that uses X.org, a lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and a Linux kernel. It contains the GParted hard disk partitioning tool, which is very useful as a system maintenance disk.

GParted Live

Features

  • Create partition tables (e.g., MSDOS, GPT)
  • Create, delete, copy, resize, move, check, set new UUID, or label partitions
  • Manipulate btrfs, ext2/3/4, f2fs, FAT16/32, hfs/hfs+, linux-swap, luks, lvm2 pv, nilfs2, NTFS, reiserfs/4, udf, ufs, and xfs file systems
  • Enable and disable partition flags (e.g., boot, hidden)
  • Align partitions to mebibyte (MiB) or cylinder boundaries
  • Attempt data rescue from lost partitions
  • Supports hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, Linux software RAID
  • Supports all sector sizes (e.g., 512, 1024, 2048, 4096-byte sectors)

GParted Live 1.6 Stable Released.

Changelog

This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

  • Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right
  • Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID
  • Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart

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