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Several days ago it was announced release of the new versions of Gparted 1.6 and Gparted Live 1.6, which come with bug fixes, translation updates and a few improvements.
If you don't know about GParted, you should know that it is is a powerful tool designed for managing partitions on Linux systems, It has support for a wide range of file systems and partition types and one of the main features of GParted is the ability to manage tags, edit and create partitions on hard drives and storage drives. This includes the ability to resize and resize existing partitions without losing data stored on them.
In addition to resizing, GParted offers tools to verify the integrity of partition tables, which ensures that the disk partitioning structure is healthy and error-free. It is also capable of recovering data from lost or damaged partitions, which can be invaluable in data loss situations.
What's new in Gparted 1.6?
In this new version of Gparted 1.6 that is presented, one of the most important changes is that 1 MiB space is no longer forced when moving the partition boundary to the right, plus the issue related to handling this type of UUID has been addressed, as I implement the solution for treating UUID exfat 0000-0000 resolving possible errors when trying to locate exFAT partitions.
Another of the changes that stands out in this new version is that use of Intent Data Rescue and gpart has been removed, as well as working on resetting the missing progress bar text when applying the operation and making fixes related to failures in GitLab CI test jobs in BlockSpecial unit tests.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Updated systemd mount mask and udev rule location
- Sortings for file system interface classes
- Requires C++11 compilation
- Remove appstream metadata from inherited route
- Document future Debian/Ubuntu build-time dependency in README
On the other hand, as we mentioned at the beginning, the Gparted Live distro focused on restoring systems in case of failures and that allows working with disk partitions with Gparted (which is the central tool), has been updated to its version Gparted Live 1.6 and in this new release, in addition to Integrate all the improvements and corrections of Gparted 1.6, we can also find the following:
- System base moved to Debian Sid repository (as of 27/2024/XNUMX)
- The Linux Kernel was updated to version 6.6.15-2
- Updated graphics stack: Mesa 24.0.1-1 and X.org 21.1.11
- systemd 255.3
- Bash NOTHING
- Gdisk 1.0.9.2
- Grub 2.12-1
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it You can check the details in the following link
How to install Gparted on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those interested in being able to install Gparted on their system, you should know that this is a utility that is found already installed by default in Ubuntu and most of its derivatives, although there are some in which this is not the case.
If you don't have Gparted, you should know that can be installed directly from your system repositories and to do this you just have to type the following command for installation:
sudo apt-get install gparted
Another method to install Gparted on your system, is compiling the application from its source code, which you can obtain from the following link.
Then you must unzip the download folder, position yourself within the folder path in a terminal and type the following commands:
./configure make sudo make install
As for those who are interested in Gparted Live 1.6, you can obtain the system image by going to the official website of the application and in the download section you will find the corresponding links to obtain the system image. He link is this.