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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 of몭cial GNOME partition-editing application.
GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and
copying disk partitions and manipulating 몭le 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 몭le 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 modi몭ed
while running. The partitions can be modi몭ed 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 몭le 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 몭ags
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 con몭rmation

con몭rmation 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 몭le 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 몭le 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 몭lesystem
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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