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|Short description=Manipulates disk partitions | |Short description=Manipulates disk partitions | ||
|Full description='''Parted''' is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. The program currently supports ext2, ext3, and FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) filesystems and Linux swap devices, and MS-DOS disk labels. | |Full description='''Parted''' is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. The program currently supports ext2, ext3, and FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) filesystems and Linux swap devices, and MS-DOS disk labels. | ||
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+ | GNU Parted contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which also serves as a sample implementation and script backend. | ||
|Homepage URL=https://www.gnu.org/software/parted | |Homepage URL=https://www.gnu.org/software/parted | ||
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|Computer languages=C | |Computer languages=C | ||
|Documentation note=User guide, user reference manual, and API documentation included; User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/ | |Documentation note=User guide, user reference manual, and API documentation included; User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/ | ||
+ | |Related projects=GParted | ||
|Keywords=administration,hard disk,file system,partitions,disk space | |Keywords=administration,hard disk,file system,partitions,disk space | ||
|Version identifier=3.2 | |Version identifier=3.2 |
Revision as of 19:32, 7 November 2014
GNU Parted
https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Manipulates disk partitions.
Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. The program currently supports ext2, ext3, and FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) filesystems and Linux swap devices, and MS-DOS disk labels.
GNU Parted contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which also serves as a sample implementation and script backend.
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Leaders and contributors
Contact(s) | Role |
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Brian C. Lane | co-maintainer |
Phillip Susi | co-maintainer |
Resources and communication
Audience | Resource type | URI |
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Savannah (Ref) | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/parted/ | |
Download | https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ | |
VCS Repository Webview | https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/ | |
Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/parted | |
General | https://translationproject.org/domain/parted.html | |
General | https://savannah.gnu.org/people/ | |
Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/ | |
Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted/ | |
Download | https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ |
Software prerequisites
Kind | Description |
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Required to build | libuild |
Required to build | part of e2fsprogs |
Weak prerequisite | GNU readline (which requires termcap or ncurses) |
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