- #Gparted live usb with file manager install#
- #Gparted live usb with file manager full#
- #Gparted live usb with file manager iso#
#Gparted live usb with file manager install#
I had already carved up the partition to install Ubuntu Dapper on the machine, and decided that I wanted to liberate a little more space for Linux on the machine than I had originally. This is my work laptop, which was originally configured with Windows XP. I used GParted to resize an NTFS filesystem on my laptop, an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43. Everything checked out, so I decided to take it for a spin on a production system - albeit not my main system. I tried deleting, creating, and moving partitions around, then booted into the installer for the next test distro to make sure that the partitions were OK after being changed by GParted. I decided to start using GParted on a test system that I planned to reformat anyway, to get a hang of the interface. You'll also want to be careful about re-arranging partitions, since you could create a situation where you'd need an emergency disk to get back into your OS because the partition names had changed. I didn't run into any problems with GParted, but it's always possible that you'll encounter an undiscovered bug that will eat your data - or you might wipe something out due to user error. It should go without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that you should back up any crucial data before making any modifications to the partitions on your drives. GParted will ask a few questions about your language and display preferences - I just picked the VESA driver, which worked just fine - and then boots into Fluxbox with GParted running. It's a tiny image - less than 30MB - so it'll fit on a business card CD, if you like that sort of thing.
#Gparted live usb with file manager iso#
Just download the ISO image, burn it to a CD, and boot up the target machine using the CD. Using the live CD is as easy as falling off a bike. It's possible to run GParted from a normal distribution - for example, GParted is available in the Ubuntu repositories - but it's pretty useful to have on a live CD that lets you make changes to all the partitions without worrying about having any of them mounted. You might only use the CD every few months, but it's a good thing to have handy when you need it.įor example, if you're installing Fedora Core onto a system that already has an NTFS partition - say, to get your boss to try Linux - you'll need a separate utility to do the partitioning, because Fedora's installer doesn't handle partition resizing. This is the kind of thing that almost any admin or power user will want to have in his toolbox. The GParted live CD bundles GParted, the Fluxbox window manager, and a minimal set of tools to provide a single-purpose Linux distro for working with disk partitions. GParted is actually a front end for GNU Parted, but it's much easier to use GParted's interface than the command line utility.
#Gparted live usb with file manager full#
See the features page on the GParted site for the full rundown on GParted's capabilities. At a bare minimum, GParted can detect, read, copy, and create partitions using those file systems - and, in some cases, can shrink, expand, and move partitions. GParted handles Ext2, Ext3, FAT16, FAT32, JFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, NTFS, XFS, and other filesystem formats. The GParted team released the GParted live CD version 0.2.4-2 this month, so I decided it was a good time to take GParted for a spin. Need a way to resize NTFS partitions, mirror disk images, or otherwise muck about with disk partitions - and don't want to use a proprietary package like Partition Magic? If so, the GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) is an excellent open source tool for the task.