Manage Partitions with GParted
Curtis Gedak
Language: English
Pages: 59
ISBN: 184951982X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Curtis Gedak, "Manage Partitions with GParted"
English | ISBN: 184951982X | 2012 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | EPUB | 86 pages | 3 + 5 MB
A task-based, step-by-step guide that empowers you to use your disk space effectively
Overview
Full of practical examples including screen shots, additional tips, and clear step-by-step instructions
Create and move partitions without data loss
Identify and manage partitions on all of your disk devices
In Detail
Modern disk drives can store vast amounts of information. To effectively use all of this space, you can partition disk drives into separate storage areas. These separate storage areas enable you to organize your data, improve system performance, and install and use many operating systems
"Manage Partitions with GParted" is a practical, hands-on guide providing you with step-by-step instructions to effectively organize your hard drive. You start with simple tasks that help you identify drives and partitions and progress to advanced tasks such as preparing for new operating systems
This book provides ample screen shots to help you effectively use your hard drive. You start with simple tasks that help you to identify drives and partitions. Next you progress to tasks covering the basics of how to grow, shrink, move, and copy partitions without data loss. You finish with advanced tasks that use the basics to prepare for new operating systems, migrate space between partitions, and share data among Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
By following through the tasks, from basic to advanced, this book will empower you with the knowledge and tools to Manage Partitions with GParted.
What you will learn from this book
Learn the basics of partition management, such as how to grow, shrink, move, and copy partitions without data loss
Prepare new disk devices for use on your computer
Free up space for new operating systems
Create live media and run GParted
Prepare for dual booting with GNU/Linux
Rescue data from lost partitions
Learn tips to edit iPod partitions, and to add space to virtual machines
Approach
This book is a practical, task-based, step-by-step tutorial that starts simple with identifying disk device partitions, and culminates with advanced tasks such as preparing for new operating systems.
Who this book is written for
Are you a computer enthusiast who is looking forward to learn how to effectively use your disk space through disk partitions to maximize your computer's potential? Then this book is for you.
boot using the original operating system install media. The GParted website contains additional resources to help you restore the operating system boot. See http://gparted.org/faq.php. Deleting a partition by accident If you have recently deleted a partition and have not yet used this space, then there is a chance you can recover the data or restore the partition. Data rescue steps are covered later in the Rescuing data from a lost partition recipe. Moving space between
table, GParted will make the GPT align with GPT standards by writing a single protective entry in the MS-DOS portion of the hybrid partition table. This causes the partition entries in the MS-DOS portion to be lost, and prevents some operating systems from booting, such as 32-bit versions of Windows. Fortunately these MS-DOS partition entries can be recreated from the GPT partition entries. When you finish editing Mac OS X partitions, open a terminal window and enter the following command: sudo
checks. Moving the left-hand side of a partition If the left-hand side of the partition, also known as the beginning of the partition, is moved, the operation is no longer simply a partition resize. Two steps are required due to the metadata contained at the beginning of the file system. One operation is needed to shrink the partition, and another to move the partition. Moving the start of a partition involves extra considerations that will be discussed later in the Moving a partition
a partition, the partition must be unmounted. In the case of an extended partition, all of the logical partitions must be unmounted or otherwise inactive. If there is no unallocated space immediately adjacent to the partition you wish to grow, then you might need to shrink, move, or delete other partitions to free up adjacent unallocated space. The location of the unallocated space is important. To add space to a primary partition the unallocated space must be outside of the extended partition.
operation. The queued grow operation is shown in the operations pane. Choose the Edit | Apply All Operations menu option to apply the queued operations to disk. Click on Apply to apply operations to disk. Click on Close to close the apply operations to disk window. How it works... In the above steps, we expanded the right-hand side of the partition, also known as the end of the partition. This instructs GParted to resize (grow) the partition. In this example, we left many options at