<s>
KDE	B-Language
Partition	I-Language
Manager	I-Language
is	O
a	O
disk	B-Application
partitioning	I-Application
application	O
originally	O
written	O
by	O
Volker	O
Lanz	O
for	O
the	O
KDE	B-Language
Platform	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
first	O
released	O
for	O
KDE	B-Language
SC	I-Language
4.1	I-Language
and	O
is	O
released	O
independently	O
of	O
the	O
central	O
KDE	O
release	O
cycle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
used	O
for	O
creating	O
,	O
deleting	O
,	O
resizing	O
,	O
moving	O
,	O
checking	O
and	O
copying	O
partitions	B-Application
,	O
and	O
the	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
on	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
useful	O
for	O
creating	O
space	O
for	O
new	O
operating	O
systems	O
,	O
reorganizing	O
disk	O
usage	O
,	O
copying	O
data	O
residing	O
on	O
hard	O
disks	O
and	O
mirroring	O
one	O
partition	B-Application
with	O
another	O
(	O
disk	O
imaging	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
KDE	B-Language
Partition	I-Language
Manager	I-Language
can	O
back	O
up	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
to	O
files	O
and	O
restore	O
such	O
backups	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
util-linux	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
manipulating	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-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
KDE	B-Language
Partition	I-Language
Manager	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
is	O
the	O
case	O
with	O
most	O
KDE	O
applications	O
,	O
KDE	B-Language
Partition	I-Language
Manager	I-Language
is	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
C++	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
and	O
uses	O
the	O
Qt	B-Language
GUI	I-Language
toolkit	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Released	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
,	O
KDE	B-Language
Partition	I-Language
Manager	I-Language
is	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
1.0	O
1.0.0beta1a	O
13	O
January	O
2009	O
Crashes	O
and	O
bugs	O
fixed	O
,	O
ext4	B-Application
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1.1	O
1.1.0	O
10	O
July	O
2014	O
New	O
features	O
,	O
support	O
for	O
4096	O
byte	O
sectors	O
,	O
Btrfs	B-Operating_System
,	O
GPT	B-Application
,	O
exFAT	B-Application
,	O
NILFS	B-Application
2	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ported	O
to	O
KDE	B-Language
Frameworks	I-Language
5	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Switched	O
license	O
to	O
GPL-3.0-or-later	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
2.0	O
2.0.0	O
15	O
January	O
2016	O
Splitting	O
user	O
interface	O
and	O
partitioning	B-Application
library	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2.1	O
2.1.0	O
11	O
March	O
2016	O
Minimal	O
support	O
for	O
F2FS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.0	O
3.0.0	O
18	O
December	O
2016	O
Support	O
for	O
LVM	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.3	O
3.3.1	O
14	O
December	O
2017	O
Better	O
LVM	B-Application
and	O
LUKS2	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
4.0	O
4.0.0	O
01	O
May	O
2019	O
KPMcore	O
backend	O
was	O
ported	O
away	O
from	O
libparted	O
to	O
sfdisk	O
(	O
part	O
of	O
util-linux	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Detection	O
support	O
for	O
Apple	O
's	O
APFS	O
filesystem	B-Application
and	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Bitlocker	O
.	O
</s>
