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HowtoForge: Modify Your Partitions With Gparted Without Losing Data

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Falko Timme
Jan 23, 2007

“This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your
Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing
data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking),
moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting
partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free
partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a
Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16,
fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and
even ntfs (Windows)…”

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