GParted LiveCD

What is Gparted?

GParted, is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Here is some basic background information about it, before you attempt to use it, quoted from the website:

"A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one larger and the adjacent one smaller). GParted's purpose is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, resizing, checking, destroying and copying 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.

Several (optional) "file system" tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of GParted."

GParted supports the following filesystems:

? ext2 (requires e2fsprogs) ? ext3 (requires e2fsprogs) ? fat16 (requires dosfstools) ? fat32 (requires dosfstools) ? hfs (requires hfsutils) ? hfs+ ? jfs (requires jfsutils) ? linux-swap (requires mkswap (part of util-linux) ) ? ntfs (requires ntfsprogs) ? reiserfs (requires reiserfsprogs) ? reiser4 ? ufs ? xfs

The following image shows you what actions are supported for each filesystem:

Here are some screenshots of GParted LiveCD in action: