GPARTED(8)

💖 GPARTED 💖

okay bestie, we're looking at the gparted manual page — section 8 of the GParted Manual, no cap. this is the GNOME Partition Editor and she is that girl when it comes to manipulating disk partitions. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gparted — GNOME Partition Editor for manipulating disk partitions. periodt. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gparted [device]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the gparted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. it's giving main character energy for your storage. ✨

a disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions, right? and gparted lets you change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partition. the way she does it without nuking your files? iconic.

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. 💫

more documentation can be found in the application help manual, and online at: https://gparted.org

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

you can run gparted from a command line and specify one or more disk devices. lowkey the easiest glow-up ever.

for example, to start gparted with the devices /dev/sda and /dev/sdc you would use the following command:

gparted /dev/sda /dev/sdc

slay. two devices, one command, zero stress. 🫶

💀 NOTES 💀

okay bestie, sit down for this one. editing partitions has the potential to cause LOSS of DATA. 😭 i'm not being dramatic, this is literally in the manual.

the gparted application is designed to enable you to edit partitions while reducing the risk of data loss. the application is carefully tested and is used by the GParted project team. however, loss of data might occur due to software bugs, hardware problems, or power failure. not me getting anxious about a power outage mid-resize. 🙈

you can help to reduce the risk of data loss by not mounting or unmounting partitions outside of the gparted application while gparted is running. fr fr, keep your hands off the mount points while she's working.

you are advised to BACKUP your DATA before using the gparted application. that's the vibe check. do it. no skipping. 👑

🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

report bugs at: https://gparted.org/bugs.php

(the devs want to hear from you, bestie, that's how she keeps slaying ✨)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Manual page written by Curtis Gedak <gedakc@users.sf.net>

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

parted(8), fdisk(8), mkfs(8), ntfsprogs(8)

and that's the whole page! this manual page is gparted, dated Jan 16th, 2011 — vintage in the most classic way 💜 — and she's still the partition editor your filesystem deserves. go back up your data, bestie, and stay iconic. 💖✨🎀