Partitioning your hard disk using GParted
GParted is THE BEST Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.
Let me give you a brief insight as to why it is the best partition manager:
FEATURES:
- It is a GNOME based partition editor
- It is OpenSource
- It is based on Debian
- The size is just 95MB!!
- Since it is OpenSource, it is free to download and use
- The images and files are hosted on sourceforge
- It has a Live CD Option. i.e., you can boot with the GParted CD and do the partitioning without even having to install the software unlike any other partition manager
- You can create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions, and the file systems on them.
- This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
- GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables.
- It just ROCKS!!!!!
Screenshots:
The mainscreen…
Another look at the main window…
Links:
- Home Page: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
- Download Page: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
- Live CD Download page (Latest testing): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=269898
Steps:
- Download the ISO image (either stable or testing – both will do fine – i use gparted 3.8.8)!!!
- Burn it into a CD
- Boot with the burnt CD and use it to partition your disk
