Install Graphical Partition Editor (Gparted)in Ubuntu Linux

This post was written by admin on September 26, 2009
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
gparted

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

    [Reply]

    Shaharyar Reply:

    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) …

    [Reply]

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    Written By Juan on July 26th, 2010 @ 7:35 am

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