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Questions tagged [gparted]

GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing disk partitions on Unix/Linux.

With gparted you can accomplish the following tasks:

  • Create a partition table on a disk device.
  • Enable and disable partition flags such as boot and hidden.
  • Perform actions with partitions such as create, delete, resize, move, check, label, copy, and paste.
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What is the difference between a name and a label in gparted?

When I create a new partition on my disk using GParted, I have the option to set both a name and a label. Some partitions I have already have both, some only a label. If I right-click on an existing partition, I can see separate options to set the…
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Using Gparted and installing Windows 10 after Linux

I recently built a computer and put LinuxMint 17.3 on it right away. I now have a free copy of Windows 10. I haven't really been able to find detailed instructions on how to install Windows while keeping Linux. I know I have to re-size partitions…
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?

I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed). The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900. The physical CPU is an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T. I created a VM…
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How to extend CentOS 5 partition on VMware?

I have a CentOS 5 virtual machine and I added 20GB more to disk size. How do I initialize and extend the available space? I tried loading GParted as well, but the drive is locked; how do I unlock it?
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Move free space from end of the drive to first partition with gparted

I am in a frustrating situation - no matter how I try, gparted won't let me assign the empty space to the first partition: The middle partition is blocking me from expanding /dev/sda1. I need to move partition /dev/sda2 to the end of the drive,…
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Why does my dd Full Disk Copy Keep failing at 8 GB?

I am trying to clone a 500 GB SSD to a 1TB SSD. For some reason, it keeps failing when the data being copied reaches 8GB. This is the third 1TB SSD I've tried this on and they all get stuck at the same place. I've ran the following command: dd…
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gparted: how to merge unallocated space with a partition

I want to merge unallocated space to an ext4 partition. But gparted seems to prevent this. I cannot extend the partition. see screenshot: merge unallocated with sda5.
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GParted LiveCD fails to start

I have a VM setup in VirtualBox (LinuxMint 17.1). But I'm trying to boot to GParted so I can resize a partition. I'm using gparted-live-0.22.0-2-amd64.iso and it boots correctly. I've tried every option in GRUB as well as the latter menu, but I…
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How to create a new encrypted LUKS-partition in GParted?

I want to create a new encrypted LUKS-partition in GParted. I've searched the UI and the help, but the only thing I can find is how to open and close an existing LUKS partition and how to to copy and paste an existing one. However, I can find no way…
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I can't resize partition with GParted

I tried to resize my partition with GParted. But I can't resize the ext4 partition. I tried to look at other question on this site, but it doesn't seem like I can find the solution. The ext4 partition is on /dev/sda6. When I try to resize it, I…
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Linux/GParted can see partition table but dd bs=512 count=1 can't

I have an MBR formatted sd card and when connect to a Linux machine (xubuntu 12.04) it can mount a partition and parse the file system (as can GParted). However, when I try to read the MBR from the device using dd it gives me a bunch of spurious…
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How to re-size partitions in a complete hard drive image?

I have taken a complete image of a hard drive using: dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/user/harddriveimg bs=4M It would seem to me, that I should be able to re-size the partitions within it after suitably mounting it. As I am less than familiar with the…
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Do I only need one swap partition for multiple Linux distros? (and other questions)

I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive. I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this all on an extended partition instead of three…
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When do logical partitions happen to need 1MB gap at each side in gparted?

I had a similar problem with this one: Why can't I create a logical partition with gparted?, where a logical partition cannot be created/formatted. Only in my case I was in a live session and it still didn't work. The error happened during the…
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gparted without GUI / X

Is there a CLI gparted version without GUI / X? parted shows warnings like the following when resizing / moving partitions: WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (resize) a file system. parted's file system manipulation code is…
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