<s>
GParted	B-Application
(	O
acronym	O
of	O
GNOME	B-Application
Partition	B-Application
Editor	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
GTK	B-Application
front-end	O
to	O
GNU	B-Application
Parted	I-Application
and	O
an	O
official	O
GNOME	B-Application
partition-editing	O
application	O
(	O
alongside	O
Disks	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
used	O
for	O
creating	O
,	O
deleting	O
,	O
resizing	O
,	O
moving	O
,	O
checking	O
,	O
and	O
copying	O
disk	B-Application
partitions	I-Application
and	O
their	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
useful	O
for	O
creating	O
space	O
for	O
new	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
,	O
reorganizing	O
disk	O
usage	O
,	O
copying	O
data	O
residing	O
on	O
hard	O
disks	B-Language
,	O
and	O
mirroring	O
one	O
partition	B-Application
with	O
another	O
(	O
disk	O
imaging	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
uses	O
libparted	B-Application
to	O
detect	O
and	O
manipulate	O
devices	O
and	O
partition	B-Application
tables	O
while	O
several	O
(	O
optional	O
)	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
tools	O
provide	O
support	O
for	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
not	O
included	O
in	O
libparted	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
optional	O
packages	O
will	O
be	O
detected	O
at	O
runtime	O
and	O
do	O
not	O
require	O
a	O
rebuild	O
of	O
GParted	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
supports	O
the	O
following	O
filesystems	B-Application
:	O
Ext2	B-Application
,	O
Ext3	B-Application
,	O
Ext4	B-Application
,	O
FAT16	B-Application
,	O
FAT32	B-Application
,	O
HFS	B-Application
,	O
HFS+	B-Application
,	O
JFS	B-Application
,	O
Linux-swap	O
,	O
ReiserFS	B-Application
,	O
Reiser4	B-Application
,	O
UFS	B-Operating_System
,	O
XFS	B-Application
,	O
and	O
NTFS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
and	O
uses	O
gtkmm	B-Language
to	O
interface	O
with	O
GTK	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
general	O
approach	O
is	O
to	O
keep	O
the	O
GUI	B-Application
as	O
simple	O
as	O
possible	O
and	O
in	O
conformity	O
with	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Application
Human	O
Interface	O
Guidelines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
GParted	B-Application
project	O
provides	O
a	O
live	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
including	O
GParted	B-Application
which	O
can	O
be	O
written	O
to	O
a	O
Live	O
CD	O
,	O
a	O
Live	O
USB	O
and	O
other	O
media	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
is	O
based	O
on	O
Debian	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
also	O
available	O
on	O
other	O
Linux	B-Application
live	O
CDs	O
,	O
including	O
recent	O
versions	O
of	O
Puppy	O
,	O
Knoppix	O
,	O
SystemRescueCd	B-Application
and	O
Parted	B-Application
Magic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
preinstalled	O
when	O
booting	O
from	O
"	O
Try	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
"	O
mode	O
on	O
an	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
installation	O
media	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
alternative	O
to	O
this	O
software	O
is	O
GNOME	B-Language
Disks	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
supports	O
the	O
following	O
operations	O
on	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
(	O
provided	O
that	O
all	O
features	O
were	O
enabled	O
at	O
compile-time	O
and	O
all	O
required	O
tools	O
are	O
present	O
on	O
the	O
system	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
'	O
copy	O
 '	O
field	O
indicates	O
whether	O
GParted	B-Application
is	O
capable	O
of	O
cloning	O
the	O
mentioned	O
filesystem	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
capable	O
of	O
cloning	O
by	O
copying	B-General_Concept
and	I-General_Concept
pasting	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
is	O
not	O
capable	O
of	O
cloning	O
an	O
entire	O
disk	O
,	O
but	O
only	O
one	O
partition	B-Application
at	O
a	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
being	O
cloned	O
should	O
not	O
be	O
mounted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GParted	B-Application
clones	O
partitions	B-Application
at	O
the	O
filesystem-level	O
,	O
and	O
as	O
a	O
result	O
is	O
capable	O
of	O
cloning	O
different	O
target-size	O
partitions	B-Application
for	O
the	O
same	O
source	O
,	O
as	O
long	O
as	O
the	O
size	O
of	O
the	O
source	O
filesystem	B-Application
does	O
not	O
exceed	O
the	O
size	O
of	O
the	O
target	O
partition	B-Application
.	O
</s>
