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Disk Partitioning in Ubuntu using GParted
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Disk Partitioning is a process of separating disks into one (or) more
logical areas so that user and system work on them independently.
When a partition is created, the disk will store the information about
the location and size of partitions in the partition table. With the
partition table, each partition can appear on the operating system as a
logical disk, and users can read and write data on those disks. Learn
more about Disk Partitioning in Linux
What is GParted
Disk Partitioning in Linux is done using command line programs like
fdisk. GParted(GNOME Partition Editor) is a Graphical user program
based on GTK which allows Disk Partitioning with just a click of the
buttons. GParted is the of몭cial GNOME partition-editing application.
GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and
copying disk partitions and manipulating 몭le systems such as exfat,
fat32/64, ext2/3/4, Linux-swap and more.
Installing GParted
You can install GParted in Ubuntu with a single command using APT
sudo apt install gparted
You can verify whether GParted is successfully installed or not using
the below command which gives an output similar to below image
sudo apt policy gparted
GParted is successfully installed
Note: It’s recommended to backup your data in the partition before
using GParted
GParted Interface
To open GParted , go to Activities in Ubuntu and click on the gparted
icon. It will prompt for password as GParted requires sudo privileges.
GParted menu
The above image shows the GParted menu, like many programs, it has
a 몭le menu(GParted), edit menu, view menu, device & partition menu,
and help menu. The icons below the menu bar represent the common
operations performed by gparted
new – create a new partition
delete – delete an existing partition
resize/move – to resize a partition, either shrink(or)increase the size
copy/paste – used to copy/paste the text(or) information
undo – undo the previous action
apply – to perform the operation chosen from above, you have to
click the apply icon to commit any selected operation in gparted
GParted
You can see all the partitions on my hard disk. It has a total of 7
partitions from /dev/sda[1-4] being used for Microsoft Windows and
/dev/sda[5-7] being used by my Linux Distro. The lock icon between
partition and name shows that these partitions can’t be modi몭ed
while running. The partitions can be modi몭ed by using a Live CD (or)
using another OS which doesn’t use these partitions.
GParted clearly shows us
Partition – the logical partition id in the partition table
Name – name of the partition
File System – type of the 몭le system used by the partition which
are like ntfs, fat32, ext4, linux-swap and more.
Mount point – the point where the partition is being mounted by
the OS which is similar to root(/), home(/home)
Size(Used/Unused) – the size of the partition and used and free
space in the partition
Flags – It tells what the partition is being used for, which are like
hidden partition, swap partition, windows partition
Resizing a partition to create a new Partition
Step 1: We will shrink /dev/sda4 by 10GB to create a new ext4
partition. Go on to /dev/sda4 and right-click on it and it opens an option
menu like below.
Options Menu
The menu has options for
create/delete partitions
resize and move partitions
format partitions
name partitions and add 몭ags
Changing UUID and more
Partition properties: To show more information about a partition click
on the information option in the menu shown in the above picture
Step 2: Click on Resize/Move. It will open new windows to select the
size to resize partitions. As we have taken the new partition size as
10GB, add 10000(GB converted into MiB) Free Space following option.
Now click on Resize/Move
resize options
Step 3: Now click “apply icon” in GParted menu( it will in the top with
icons representing actions), It will ask for con몭rmation
con몭rmation warning
After clicking on apply, the partition will be resized.
gparted will start resizing options
Step 4: If the resize is successful you will see a success message like
below.
resize successful
You will see an unallocated space in the GParted list
unallocated space
Creating a New Partition
Click on the unallocated space and select new in GParted menu where
we have selected in the apply icon. Select the options like size, name
as 몭le system and then click add
New partition option
Now click on the apply icon like before to apply the changes, and
accept the warning
apply operations
If the operations are successful, you will see the message like before.
operations successful
We have successfully created a new /dev/sda8 partition using
GParted
NEW Partition
Formatting a new partition
You can choose the format of the 몭le system when creating a new
partition, if you choose to format an existing partition, select the
partition you want to format and right-click on it to open the partition
menu. Then go to the format option and click on the type of 몭lesystem
you want. After selecting, apply the changes just by clicking on the
apply icon in the top menu.
formatting a partition
Deleting a Partition
Deleting a partition is simple. Select the partition you want to delete
and click the delete icon on the top menu and then click apply icon.
Deleting a partition will erase all the data in that partition, so be
careful while using it.
Last Updated : 29 Nov, 2022
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