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the most popular partition editors for Linux

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1 Gparted
2 gnome disks
3 KDE Partition Manager
4 Fdisk
5 cfdisk
6 GNU Parted
7 Qtparted

 

 

1.GParted is a partition editor for the GNOME desktop environment. This application is used to create, delete, resize, inspect and copy partitions, as well as the file systems found on them. This is useful to create space for new operating systems, rearrange disk usage and create disk images on a partition.

2.What Gnome Disks is a graphical front-end of udisks included in the gnome-disk-utility package this is another partition editor that belongs to the Gnome project.

3.KDE Partition Manager This is a partition editor, which makes use of the GNU Parted library, to allow the user to manage partitions, of which the tasks it allows to perform we find the following:

Create, delete, check, resize and copy partitions and the file systems on them.

4.Fdisk 

This is another of the many most popular partition managers in Linux, Fdisk is included in most Linux distributions and it is usually the tool of this type most used by users.

Fdisk allows the user to do what any partition manager can do, what makes Fdisk special is that it is not an exclusive tool for Linux, but it is cross-platform.

5. Cfdisk - a partition editor similar to fdisk, since its use is also through the command line, but with a different interface than fdisk, cfdisk tries to read partition tables from disk, showing found ones.

6. GNU Parted Parted is a popular command line tool for managing hard disk partitions. It supports multiple partition table formats, including MS-DOS, GPT, BSD and many more. With it, you can add, delete, shrink and extend disk partitions along with the file systems located on them.

7. In addition, you can also use Qtparted, is a Partition Magic (proprietary software for Windows) clone and Qt front-end to GNU Parted. Note that it still in development and you may likely experience any kind of problem with latest release

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