Install Gparted Partition Manager in Ubuntu via terminal and Ubuntu Software Center

Gparted Mac
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Windows Version Of Gparted
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Gparted a free open source software for graphically managing the hard disks. With live Gparted on a bootable pen drive you can copy, label, resize and move partition without loss of data. It can also rescue data from lost partitions. Gparted can work with or create ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, linux-swap, lvm2 pv, nilfs2, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4,ufs and xfs formats.
Gparted is the one of the best hard disk management software for Ubuntu and Linux Base Derivatives. There is two method to use it. You can install it on the system or can create a bootable pen drive with the ISO file of the Gparted.
installation of Gparted in a Ubuntu-Debian system

‘gparted’ is the graphical version of ‘parted’ and is the tool to use to resize the main partition used for raspbian (or you could use use parted if you prefer the command line of course!). It can also be used to check and repair a SD card disk.

GParted 1.3.0 (2021-05-03) Release Notes - This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates. ### Key changes include:. Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings. Improve exFAT support such as read FS usage and set UUID. Fix crash in Create New Partition dialog when changing type.
‘gparted’ is the graphical version of ‘parted’ and is the tool to use to resize the main partition used for raspbian (or you could use use parted if you prefer the command line of course!). It can also be used to check and repair a SD card disk.

1. Via Terminal
2. Via Ubuntu Software Manager

1. Via Terminal
Open the terminal via “Ctrl+Alt+T” and run the command below.

2. Via Ubuntu Software Manager
Open the Ubuntu Software Manager and search Gparted. It will search the Gparted. Now click “Install” to install the Gparted.

Gparted Mac

Creating a Live Bootable Pen Drive with Gparted ISO
First download Gparted ISO from the link below

Now read the posts to create the gparted bootable pen drive in windows and linux via clicking the link below

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‘gparted’ is the graphical version of ‘parted’ and is the tool to use to resize the main partition used for raspbian (or you could use use parted if you prefer the command line of course!). It can also be used to check and repair a SD card disk.

To do this you’ll need to put the SD card you want to work on in a USB to SD card adaptor and boot your RPi from a separate SD card. If you’d rather use a windows tool we’ve found that gparted just works whereas all of the windows based partition managers we tried don’t, so better to just get over the hassle factor and use the RPi to do this if you don’t have a separate Linux system.

Installing gparted on the separate Raspbian SD card that will perform the change

Gparted Dd

From the command line use:

sudo apt-get update Dups on your driver s license.

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install gparted

Running gparted

To run it use ‘sudo startx’ to load the GUI as gparted needs root user privileges

Then from the start menu select run and enter ‘gparted’

Resizing Your Main Partition

From the top bar devices drop down select “dev/sda” (or whatever your external USB adaptor has been called).

Windows Version Of Gparted

Gparted Windows

Right click somewhere on the graphic and select ‘unmount’ first as operations can’t be carried out on a mounted partition.

Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘check’, then click the green tick and let it check the partition for you (this isn’t essential but its a good idea as if there are issues it will likely cause the resize to fail).

Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘resize’ then enter the new size you want it to be.

Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘check’ (we’ve found this to be necessary to ensure the new partition size is correctly updated in the file system even though it should be done as part of the resize – kept us chasing constantly failed resizes for hours before we discovered this).

Finally click the green arrow button to carry out the changes.

Reboot the RPi (yep its stupid but we’ve found a reboot to be needed even after removing and re-inserting the SD card), sudo startx, run gparted, select the USB drive and check the ext4 partition is locked again (mounted) and has its boot string back.

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