{"id":12585,"date":"2019-03-28T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:27:28","slug":"top-6-partition-managers-cli-gui-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/top-6-partition-managers-cli-gui-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 6 Partition Managers (CLI + GUI) for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you looking to tweak or manage your disks partitions in Linux? In this article, we will review some of the best tools that help Linux users partition and manage their disks. We will see both command line utilities as well as GUI applications for managing disk partitions in Linux.<\/p>\n

Read Also<\/strong>:\u00a09 Tools to Monitor Linux Disk Partitions and Usage in Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

I favor the command line over GUI (graphical user interface), I will start by describing the text based utilities and then GUI applications as follows.<\/p>\n

1. Fdisk<\/h3>\n

fdisk<\/a>\u00a0is a powerful and popular command line tool used for creating and manipulating disk partition tables. It supports multiple partition tables formats, including MS-DOS and GPT. It provides a user-friendly, text based and menu driven interface to display, create, resize, delete, modify, copy and move partitions on disks.<\/p>\n

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Fdisk Partition Tool<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2. GNU Parted<\/h3>\n

Parted<\/a>\u00a0is a popular command line tool for managing hard disk partitions. It supports multiple partition table formats, including MS-DOS, GPT, BSD and many more. With it, you can add, delete, shrink and extend disk partitions along with the file systems located on them.<\/p>\n

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\"Parted<\/a><\/p>\n

Parted Partition Program<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It can help you create space for installing new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and move data to new hard disks.<\/p>\n

3. Gparted<\/h3>\n

GParted<\/a>\u00a0is a free, cross platform and advanced graphical disk partition manager that works on Linux operating systems, Mac OS X and Windows.<\/p>\n

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\"GParted<\/a><\/p>\n

GParted Partition Manager and Editor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is used to resize, copy, move, label, check or delete partitions without data loss, enabling you to grow or shrink root partition, create space for new operating systems and attempt data rescue from lost partitions. It can be used to manipulate file systems including EXT2\/3\/4.<\/p>\n

4. GNOME Disks a.k.a ( GNOME Disks Utility)<\/h3>\n

GNOME Disks<\/a>\u00a0is a core system utility used for disk partition management and S.M.A.R.T monitoring. It is used to format and create partition on drives, mount and unmount partitions. It ships in with the well known GNOME desktop environment.<\/p>\n

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\"Gnome<\/a><\/p>\n

Gnome Disks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lately, it\u2019s been gaining features for advanced usage. The latest version (at the time of this writing) has a new feature for adding, resizing partitions, checking filesystems for any damages and repairing them.<\/p>\n

5. KDE Partition Manager<\/h3>\n

KDE partition manager<\/a>\u00a0is a useful graphical utility for managing disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It comes with the KDE desktop environment.<\/p>\n

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\"KDE<\/a><\/p>\n

KDE Partition Manager<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Most of its underlying work is performed by programs. It can be used to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions. It supports various including EXT2\/3\/4, BTRFS NTFS, FAT16\/32, XFS, and more.<\/p>\n

6. Qtparted<\/h3>\n

In addition, you can also use\u00a0Qtparted<\/a>, is a Partition Magic (proprietary software for Windows) clone and Qt front-end to GNU Parted. Note that it still in development and you may likely experience any kind of problem with latest release. In that case try to use the CVS version or a previous stable version.<\/p>\n

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QTParted Partition Magic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It may not be one of the best options now but you can give it a try. More features are yet being added to it.<\/p>\n

You might also like to read these following related articles.<\/p>\n

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  1. 4 Tools to Manage EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 Health in Linux<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. 3 Useful GUI and Terminal Based Linux Disk Scanning Tools<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Recover Deleted or Lost Files in Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the best partition managers and editors available for Linux operating systems. Which tool do you use?<\/p>\n

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    Are you looking to tweak or manage your disks partitions in Linux? In this article, we will review some of the best tools that help Linux users partition and manage their disks. We will see both command line utilities as well as GUI applications for managing disk partitions in Linux. Read Also:\u00a09 Tools to Monitor … <\/p>\n

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