Editing Disk editor (section)

==Partition editor==
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[[Image:GParted 1.3.1 screenshot.png|thumb|300px|[[GParted]] is a popular partition editor]]
[[File:KDE Partition Manager 21.12.0 screenshot.png|alt=KDE Partition Manager is another popular partition editor|thumb|300x300px|[[KDE Partition Manager]] is another popular partition editor]]
A '''partition editor''' (also called '''partitioning utility''') is a kind of [[utility software]] designed to view, create, modify or delete [[disk partition]]s. A disk partition is a logical segment of the storage space on a storage device. By partitioning a large device into several partitions, it is possible to isolate various types of data from one another, and allow the coexistence of two or more operating systems simultaneously. Features and capabilities of partition editors vary, but generally they can create several partition on a disk, or one contiguous partition on several disks, at the discretion of the user. They can also, shrink a partition to allow more partitions created on a storage device, or delete one and expand an adjacent partition into the available space.