Top Linux Partition Editors

A Linux Partition Editor is a tool or utility used to manage disk partitions on a Linux system. These tools allow users to create, resize, move, delete, and format partitions, which are essential tasks when organizing storage on a computer. Linux partition editors can also help troubleshoot disk issues or set up new disk configurations.

Top Linux partition editors that are commonly used to manage disk partitions are
as follows:

• GParted (GNOME Partition Editor)
• KDE Partition Manager
• Parted (Command-Line Tool)
• Disks (GNOME Disks)
• fdisk (Command-Line Tool)

 

GParted (GNOME Partition Editor)

GParted is the most popular and user-friendly partition editor for Linux. It supports a wide range of filesystems (ext4, NTFS, FAT32, etc.) and partition tables (GPT, MBR).

 

Features:

• Resize, move, copy, and format partitions.
• Recover lost partitions.
• Supports RAID and LVM configurations.
• Live USB mode for modifying system partitions safely.

Install

You can install the tool using the following command on Linux:

$ sudo apt install gparted

 

KDE Partition Manager

KDE Partition Manager is the partition editor used in KDE environments, offering a similar set of features as GParted.

Features:

It supports resizing, creating, deleting, and formatting partitions.
It also includes a visual representation of the disk layout.

Install

You can install the tool by running the following command on Debian-based systems:

$ sudo apt install partitionmanager