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GParted Live
A minimal live distribution built around a single purpose: running the GParted graphical partition editor to resize, move, create, or delete disk partitions outside of any installed operating system.
Based on
Debian
First released
2004
Package manager
APT (.deb)
Desktop environments
Openbox (minimal window manager wrapping GParted)
GParted Live exists to solve one specific, common problem safely: resizing or reorganizing disk partitions is risky to do from within a running operating system that's actively using those same partitions, so GParted Live boots an entirely separate minimal environment from a USB/CD, letting the partition table be modified with no operating system holding a lock on the disk. It supports resizing, moving, copying, creating, and deleting partitions across most common filesystems (ext4, NTFS, FAT32, Btrfs, and more), making it a standard tool for shrinking a Windows partition to make room for a Linux install, or vice versa. Its interface is deliberately just GParted itself running in a minimal window manager, with essentially nothing else included.
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