GParted
GParted is GNOME's front-end to GNU Parted and its official disk management and partitioning utility. Because of it's robustness, ease of use, and wide support for filesystems it is one of the best graphical partitioning utilities available for Linux.
Installation
Installing GParted is easy, however adding support for the filesystems it is capable of supporting may take a little time. If recompiling the kernel is needed then adding support to GParted means emerging the associated userspace tools.
Kernel
It is important to have kernel support for all the filesystems GParted will be managing. See the respective kernel sections by clicking on the links for each filesystem:
USE flags
USE flags for sys-block/gparted Gnome Partition Editor
btrfs
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Include Btrfs support (sys-fs/btrfs-progs) |
cryptsetup
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Include LUKS volume support (sys-fs/cryptsetup) |
dmraid
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Support for dmraid devices, also known as ATA-RAID, or Fake RAID. |
f2fs
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Include F2FS support (sys-fs/f2fs-tools) |
fat
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Include FAT16/FAT32 support (sys-fs/dosfstools) |
hfs
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Include HFS support (sys-fs/hfsutils) |
jfs
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Include JFS support (sys-fs/jfsutils) |
kde
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Add support for software made by KDE, a free software community |
mdadm
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Support for Linux software RAID. |
ntfs
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Include NTFS support (sys-fs/ntfs3g) |
policykit
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Enable PolicyKit (polkit) authentication support |
reiser4
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Include ReiserFS4 support (sys-fs/reiser4progs) |
reiserfs
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Include ReiserFS support (sys-fs/reiserfsprogs) |
test
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Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently) |
udf
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Include UDF support (sys-fs/udftools) |
wayland
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Enable interim workaround to allow running GParted under Wayland by granting permission to the X11 display using x11-apps/xhost. |
xfs
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Include XFS support (sys-fs/xfsprogs, sys-fs/xfsdump) |
Emerge
root #emerge --ask sys-block/gpartedRemoval
root #emerge --ask --unmerge --ask sys-block/gpartedConfiguration
There is not much configuration to GParted.
Usage
(Explain how to use the package/software/tool/utility in this section.)
Invocation
(Remove this section if not applicable.)
Troubleshooting
Cannot open a certain filesystem type
See also
- parted - The command-line interface to GNU Parted.