gparted
Recientemente the launch of the new version 1.0 of the editor has been presented disk partitions GpartedThis new version stands out in essence because after just over 14 years, this partition editor has remained in the 0.xx.x branch.
Although a long list of changes would be expected, the reality is different since heGparted developers have indicated that this numbering jump does not indicate that the application come with big changes, if that simply GParted now requires gtkmm3 instead of gtkmm2.
So this new version 1.0 really comes with a handful of changes.
If you still don't know about Gparted, let me tell you that this is a partition editor that is compatible with most file systems and partition types used in Linux.
In addition to managing labels, editing, and creating partitions, GParted allows the user to perform other typical functions of partition editorssuch as reducing or increasing the size of existing partitions without losing the data placed on them, verifying the integrity of partition tables, recovering data from lost partitions, and aligning the beginning of the partition along the cylinder boundary.
Use libparted to detect and manipulate partition tables and devices, while various filesystem tools (optional) provide support for file systems that are not in libparted. These packages will be detected during execution and do not require GParted rebuild.
It is written in C ++, uses gtkmm as a GUI library with GTK and maintains a graphical interface as simple as possible and in accordance with the human interface guidelines for Gnome. Gparted is released under the GPL-2.0 + license.
Main new features of Gparted 1.0
As with other versions, this one also includes various enhancements, bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Among the main changes that come in this new version of Gparted 1.0 as we mentioned at the beginning the new version is notable for the transition to using Gtkmm3 (binding on GTK3 for C ++) instead of Gtkmm2.
In addition, the new version of Gparted 1.0 includes the ability to resize partitions extended discs on the fly and for the F2FS file system, support has been added to check, expand partition size and read usage data.
And that also the project documentation has been translated to use the GNOME 3 yelp-tools toolkit.
Finally another of the notable changes of this new version is that fix slow update of NTFS file systems.
On the other hand, the availability of the beta version of the GParted LiveCD 1.0 live distribution package can be observed, focused on restoring the system after a failure and working with disk partitions using the GParted partition editor.
The distribution is based on the Debian Sid package foundation (as of May 25) and comes with GParted 1.0.
How to install Gparted 1.0 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
How should they know Gparted is an application that is already installed by default in Ubuntu and most of the derivatives of this, although there are some in which it is not.
But, if you are interested in being able to install this application on your system, you can do so by following the instructions that we share below.
Gparted can be installed directly from the Ubuntu repositories, although the only detail is that this new version has not yet been included in the Ubuntu repositories.
You can type the following command to install it:
sudo apt-get install gparted
One method to have the new version at this time is by compiling the applicationon from its source code, which you can get from the following link.
Once this is done, we unzip the package and position ourselves in a terminal within it. Now we are going to install the necessary dependencies for Gparted by executing the following command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential gnome-common yelp-tools \ libglib2.0-dev uuid-dev libparted-dev \ libgtkmm-3.0-dev
And finally we compile the package by executing the following commands:
./configure make sudo make install sudo install -m 644 org.gnome.gparted.policy \ /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.local.policy