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The GNOME Partition Editor (Gparted) is used to create, reorganize, and delete disk partitions. It uses libparted from the parted project to discover and manage partition tables. There are optional filesystem tools that allow you to manage filesystems not included in libparted.

Key features include:

• Create partition tables (eg MSDOS, GPT).
• Create, delete, copy, resize, move, inspect, set a new UUID or mark partitions.
• Management of btrfs, ext2/3/4, f2fs, FAT16/32, hfs/hfs+, linux-swap, lvm2 pv, nilfs2, NTFS, reiserfs/4, ufs and xfs file systems.
• Enable or disable partition flags (eg bootable, hidden).
• Align partitions by mebibytes (MiB) or cylinder boundaries.
• Try to recover data from lost partitions.
• Supports hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, software RAID for Linux.
• Supports all sector sizes (eg sectors 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 bytes).

GParted can be used on x86 and x86-64 computers running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux by booting from media containing GParted Live.

GParted is a great piece of software that everyone should have hidden away just in case they had hard drive problems. It’s really functional, has a lot of great tools and good hardware support. First of all, and I can’t stress this enough, it’s very easy to use!