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A non destructive way to resize any disk partition

August 9, 2006 by in Geeky,Tech with 7 Comments

GParted came recommended to my by a fellow IT professional, and after using the program I feel is an essential tool for anybody who works with a computer.

GParted is used for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them, making it useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (including disk imaging). GParted handles Ext2, Ext3, FAT16, FAT32, JFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, NTFS, XFS, and other filesystem formats, and GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a PII or better. Even if GParted for some strange reasons can’t shrink, expand, or move your partition it will, read, copy, and create partitions using those file systems.

Just download the ISO (30 Megabytes) and burn the live bootable image to a CD, boot to the CD, and you are all set to go.

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  • chad

    I love gparted … ironically just finished using it for some partition work a few minutes ago on an ailing laptop… very good program, comes bundled with the unbuntu install ISO… just incase you were curious ;)

  • Justin

    Hmmm….I’ll test it myself and see how it goes…i hold you responsible :P

  • Phil

    Last time I used GParted on ubuntu, it was really more like a work in progress. A lot of stuff wasn’t finished, some features didn’t work, no help index, etc. but if its finished I might try it again. Thanks for reminding me of it.

  • Dylan

    I always keep an Ubuntu Live CD close by. I think everyone should since they are good “OH SHIT” CD’s . . .

  • lumpy

    Used this as well to get Ubuntu to install properly. Easy and awesome. They have a USB drive option. However, I never got it to work.

  • http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/01/9404/ How to Resize Your Parallels Drive, and Get Windows to Recognize It

    [...] Assuming you already resized your hard disk image via the Parallels Image Tool you download GParted (review) from SourceForge. [...]

  • HZC

    Does anyone know if GParted can be used with Mac OS X (10.4.9)? Would it handle Apple Partition Tables?

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