GNU Parted
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It consists of a library, libparted, and a command-line front-end, parted, that also serves as a reference implementation.
Template:As of, GNU Parted runs only under Linux and GNU/Hurd.<ref>GNU Parted supported platforms</ref>
Other front-endsEdit
Text-basedEdit
nparted is the newt-based frontend to GNU Parted.<ref>Overview of nparted source package</ref>
Projects have started for an ncurses frontend,<ref>cparted - ncurses interface in python/pyparted</ref> that also could be used in Windows (with GNUWin32 Ncurses).<ref>Ncurses</ref>
fatresize offers a command-line interface for FAT16/FAT32 non-destructive resize and uses the GNU Parted library.<ref>SourceForge.net: fatresize</ref>
tparted is the TV/FV-based frontend for GNU Parted.<ref>github.com: tparted</ref>
Graphical front-endsEdit
GParted is a graphical program using the parted libraries. It is adapted for GNOME, one of the two major desktop environments (the other being KDE) for Unix-like installations. It is often included as utility on many live CD distributions to make partitioning easier.
KDE Partition Manager is a Qt graphical program, also included on many live CD distributions, which made use of parted libraries; anyway, in version 4.0 its backend, KPMcore, was ported away from libparted to sfdisk.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> QtParted was another graphical front-end based on Qt that is no longer being actively maintained.
Pyparted<ref>pyparted – Python bindings for GNU parted (libparted) github page</ref> (also called python-parted)<ref>python-parted package in Ubuntu dapper</ref> is the Python front-end for GNU Parted.
Linux distributions that come with parted by default include Slackware, Knoppix, sidux, SystemRescueCD, and Parted Magic.
LimitationsEdit
Parted previously had support for operating on filesystems within partitions (creating, moving, resizing, copying). This support was removed in version 3.0.<ref>parted 3.0 release notes</ref>