GPARTED

Gparted is the GNOME Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.

A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger.) Gparted makes it possible for you to take a hard disk and change the partition organization, while preserving the partition contents.

More specifically, Gparted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).

Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks, such as USB flash drives, and memory cards.

Visit https://gparted.org for more information.

LICENSING

GParted is released under the General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. (GPLv2+). All files are released under the GPLv2+ unless explicitly licensed otherwise.

The GParted Manual is released under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or any later version. (GFDLv1.2+).

Google Test C++ test framework is released under the 3-Clause BSD License. (BSD-3-Clause).

See these files for more details: COPYING - GNU General Public License version 2 COPYING-DOCS - GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 lib/gtest/LICENSE - 3-Clause BSD License

NEWS

Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be found in the file: NEWS

INSTALL

a. Pre-built Binary

Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on some distributions is given below:

  RHEL
  ----
  su -
  dnf install gparted

  Debian or Ubuntu
  ----------------
  sudo apt install gparted

  Fedora
  ------
  su -
  dnf install gparted

  OpenSUSE
  --------
  sudo zypper install gparted

b. Building from Source

Briefly, build and install GParted into the default location of /usr/local using: ./configure make sudo make install sudo install -m 644 org.gnome.gparted.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.local.policy This assumes all the dependencies are already installed, builds the default configuration and polkit is being used as the graphical su program.

The following dependencies are required to build GParted from source: g++ make parted gnome-common gtkmm3 gettext polkit yelp-tools - required if help documentation is to be built

On RHEL, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following command as root: dnf install gnome-common yelp-tools glib2-devel gcc-c++
libuuid-devel parted-devel gtkmm30-devel make
polkit-devel gettext-devel

On Debian or Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running one of the following commands: Either; sudo apt build-dep gparted Or; sudo apt install build-essential gnome-common yelp-tools
libglib2.0-dev uuid-dev libparted-dev
libgtkmm-3.0-dev

Debian 13 and later and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later also require this dependency installing: sudo apt install libpolkit-gobject-1-dev

On Fedora, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following command as root: dnf install gnome-common yelp-tools glib2-devel gcc-c++
libuuid-devel parted-devel gtkmm30-devel make
polkit-devel gettext-devel

On openSUSE, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following commands: sudo zypper install gnome-common gcc-c++ libuuid-devel
parted-devel gtkmm3-devel make polkit-devel

Again, build GParted with the default configuration and install into the default location of /usr/local using: ./configure make sudo make install

If you wish to build this package without the help documentation use the --disable-doc flag: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc

If you wish to build this package to use native libparted /dev/mapper dmraid support use the --enable-libparted-dmraid flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-libparted-dmraid

If you wish to build GParted to allow it to use xhost to grant root access to the X11 server use the --enable-xhost-root flag. This is required to allow GParted to display under Wayland. ./configure --enable-xhost-root

The list of graphical privilege escalation programs GParted checks at runtime can be configured with the --with-gksuprogs option. The list is colon separated, and commands may include arguments. E.g., ./configure --with-gksuprogs='pkexec --disable-internal-agent:gksudo:run0'

Please note that more than one configure flag can be used: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc --enable-libparted-dmraid

The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.

c. Installing polkit's Action File

GParted needs to run as root therefore it needs a graphical switch user program to allow normal users to run it. Most desktops now use polkit as their preferred authorisation mechanism. Therefore the default build-time configuration makes GParted look for supported graphical privilege escalation programs at runtime in preference order: polkit's pkexec, gksudo, gksu, kdesudo, xdg-su, run0. Also polkit reads action files only from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/actions. Therefore it is likely that a polkit action file will need to be installed into this directory.

When GParted is configured with prefix /usr (using command ./configure --prefix=/usr) then make install will automatically install the polkit action file into the correct directory and no further steps need to be taken. This is typically the case for distribution builds of GParted.

However when GParted is configured with the default prefix of /usr/local, or any prefix other than /usr, then the polkit action file has to be manually installed into the correct directory. Also it should have a unique file name to avoid overwriting the action file from the distribution's package. Install the polkit action file with a unique name including an extra ".local" in the name:

  sudo install -m 644 org.gnome.gparted.policy \
         /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.local.policy

d. Building using a Specific (lib)parted Version

1. Download the parted version you wish to use (e.g., 3.2) from:

   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

2. Build and install parted.

   Extract parted tarball, configure, make, and sudo make install. Note that by default this will install into /usr/local.

3. Set environment variables to inform the GParted build system to use libparted from /usr/local:

   export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib export LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

4. Build gparted using steps listed above in "Building from Source".

   Note that when you run ./configure you should see the specific version of parted listed in the check for libparted >= 1.7.1.

   You will also see the libparted version listed when running gparted from the command line.

DIRECTORIES

data - contains desktop icons

doc - contains manual page documentation

help - contains GParted Manual and international translations

include - contains source header files

lib/gtest - contains Google Test C++ test framework libraries

m4 - contains macro files

po - contains international language translations

src - contains C++ source code

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

GParted has the following dependencies.

Mandatory dependencies: GNU parted (library) - Detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Detect file systems. blkid (command) - Detect and query file systems and software storage components. pidof (command)

Mandatory dependency on one of the following commands in order to launch the GParted application as root (also see configuration option --with-gksuprogs discussion above): pkexec (command) gksudo (command) gksu (command) kdesudo (command) xdg-su (command) run0 (command)

Strongly recommended dependencies: udevadm (command) - Wait for udev rule execution and query udev device properties. dmsetup (command) - Administrate device mapper devices.

Dependencies needed to support specific software storage components: mdadm (command) - Query SWRaid (Linux Software RAID). lvm (command) - Administrate LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager). cryptsetup (command) - Administrate LUKS encrypted volumes. dmraid (command) - Administrate DMRaid (Device Mapper RAID).

Dependencies needed to support specific file systems: bcachefs-tools (package) - Bcachefs btrfs-progs (package) - Btrfs e2fsprogs (package) - Ext2, Ext3, Ext4 exfatprogs (package) - exFAT f2fs-tools (package) - F2FS dosfstools (package) - FAT16/32 mtools (package) - FAT16/32 hfsutils (package) - HFS hfsprogs (package) - HFS+ jfsutils (package) - JFS nilfs-utils (package) - NILFS2 ntfs-3g (package) - NTFS ntfsprogs (package) - NTFS reiser4progs (package) - Reiser4 reiserfsprogs (package) - ReiserFS udftools (package) - UDF util-linux (package) - Linux swap, Minix xfsprogs (package) - XFS xfsdump (package) - XFS

Other optional components: udisks2-inhibit (command) - Prevent file system automounting. udisks (command) - Prevent file system automounting. yelp (command) - Display help manual. xhost (command) - Grant root access to the X11 server (only when configured to do so).