Install Graphical Partition Editor (Gparted)in Ubuntu Linux
This post was written by admin on September 26, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
Gparted is one of the most popular partition editor in Ubuntu Linux,that you can create,reorganize,format partitions for your hard disk,or usb drive.
To install gparted is very easy,just run this command in terminal(Applications->Accessories->Terminal):
sudo apt-get install gparted
Now,you can launch Gparted from System->Administration->Partition Editor

Select drive in right top and all partitions lists in box,you can right click on one partition to organize.
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Reader Comments
Hi, imposible to install gparted in Ubuntu 9.10:
root@juan:/home/juan# apt-get install gparted
Leyendo lista de paquetes… Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado… Hecho
El paquete gparted no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia
a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se
encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente
E: El paquete gparted no tiene candidato para su instalación
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Shaharyar Reply:
July 30th, 2011 at 4:50 am
Well tahts what you couldn’t do! The Software successfully gets installed:
Check this out:
shaharyar@shaharyar-MX46U2-CN:~$ sudo apt-get install gparted
[sudo] password for shaharyar:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.38-8 linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
Suggested packages:
xfsprogs reiserfsprogs reiser4progs jfsutils kpartx dmraid
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gparted
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 499 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,671 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main gparted i386 0.7.0-1ubuntu1 [499 kB]
Fetched 499 kB in 7s (67.7 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gparted.
(Reading database … 203461 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gparted (from …/gparted_0.7.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index…
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils …
Processing triggers for python-gmenu …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache…
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Processing triggers for python-support …
Setting up gparted (0.7.0-1ubuntu1) …
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