GParted 1.8 Open-Source Partition Editor Released with Many Enhancements

GParted 1.8 Open-Source Partition Editor Released with Many Enhancements

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Marcus Nestor
Feb 13, 2026

Coming almost two years after GParted 1.6, the GParted 1.8 release is here to improve support for FAT filesystems by fixing a hang when setting FAT labels that match a root folder entry, as well as to add support for erasing file system signatures before all the file system files are copied.

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Marcus Nestor

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