GParted

The gparted application is the GNOME partition editor for manipulating disk partitions. It enables users to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partitions. GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables, with optional filesystem tools providing support for filesystems not included in libparted.

With gparted, users can accomplish tasks such as creating a partition table on a disk device, enabling and disabling partition flags like boot and hidden, and performing actions on partitions including create, delete, resize, move, check, label, copy, and paste. It is designed for disk management in environments like Kali Linux, where precise control over storage is needed.

Editing partitions has the potential to cause data loss due to software bugs, hardware problems, or power failure. Users are advised to backup data before use and avoid mounting or unmounting partitions outside the application while it is running.

GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several optional filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted. The application carefully tests operations to reduce data loss risk, allowing partition reorganization while preserving contents through actions like resize, move, and copy.