Gparted For Mac
GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and their file systems. GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, enabling you to grow or shrink your C. IPartition for Mac allows you to make your partitions, intelligently. The software provides a graphical format to highlight, edit and delete your partitions.
| Developer(s) | GParted developers |
|---|---|
| Initial release | August 26, 2004; 15 years ago |
| Stable release | 1.0 / May 29, 2019; 5 months ago[1] |
| Repository | GParted Repository |
| Written in | C++ (gtkmm), C[2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Partition editor |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | gparted.sourceforge.net gparted.org |
GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and their file systems. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
Background[edit]
GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of GParted.
GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm to interface with GTK. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible and in conformity with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
The GParted project provides a live operating system including GParted which can be written to a Live CD, a Live USB and other media.[3][4] The operating system is based on Debian GNU/Linux. GParted is also available on other GNU/Linux live CDs, including recent versions of Puppy, Knoppix, SystemRescueCd and Parted Magic. GParted is preinstalled when booting from 'Try Ubuntu' mode on a Ubuntu installation media.
An alternative to this software is Disks (GNOME Disks).
Supported features[edit]
GParted supports the following operations on file systems (provided that all features were enabled at compile-time and all required tools are present on the system). The 'copy' field indicates whether GParted is capable of cloning the mentioned filesystem.[5]
| Detect | Read | Create | Grow | Shrink | Move | Copy | Check | Label | UUID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BitLocker | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Btrfs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| crypt / LUKS[6] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| exFAT[7][8] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| ext2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ext4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| F2FS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| FAT16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FAT32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| HFS+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| JFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| swap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| LVM2 PV | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| NILFS2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| NTFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ReFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Reiser4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| ReiserFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| UFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| XFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ZFS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Cloning with GParted[edit]
GParted is capable of cloning by using the mouse gesture of copy and paste.GParted is not capable of cloning an entire disk, but only one partition at a time.The file system being cloned should not be mounted.GParted clones partitions at the filesystem-level, and as a result is capable of cloning different target-size partitions for the same source, as long as the size of the source filesystem does not exceed the size of the target partition.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^GParted -- News Item 224
- ^http://www.ohloh.net/p/32097
- ^'Gparted Live CD'. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^A quick look at the GParted live CD Linux.com The source of Linux information
- ^'GParted Features'. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^GParted — News Item 207
- ^Feature Requests: exFAT (aka FAT64)
- ^Bug / Enhancement 639760 - exfat / fat64 support?
- ^'Gparted Manual: Copying and Pasting a Partition'.
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to GParted. |
- Official website on SourceForge
Disk Utility
Disk Utility is a disk utility on macOS operating system. It supports creating, splitting, merging, resizing, deleting and formatting partitions on the hard disk. Disk Utility only supports partition creation and formatting for Mac OS Extended (Journaled), exFAT, MS-DOS (FAT) and since MacOS High Sierra (10.13), it supports APFS.
If you are a Linux user or operating systems other than macOS, you probably use another tool. In another case, if you are using a Seagate, WD My Passport or any other hard drive that you previously partitioned with another tool. Disk Utility will report MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. This error occurs because the partitions created do not comply with Apple’s partition policy. In this case, you can use other tools instead of Disk Utility.
In this article, I will guide you to create a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition with GParted. Download uplay desktop app. If you want to install macOS High Sierra or later versions, just use the Convert to APFS feature on Disk Utility.
GParted
GParted is a well known disk partitioning program. It supports many partition formats such as FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, Ext4 and of course supports Mac OS Extended. We can use GParted to create Mac OS Extended partitions in just a few simple steps.
GParted comes pre-installed on many Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint… If you already have GParted installed, just use it. If not, you can download GParted or 4MParted ISO files then integrate into AIO Boot. You should use these two operating systems, as they have pre-installed programs that support the format. If you use GParted on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian, you need to install hfsprogs.
The format of Mac OS Extended is HFS+. There are some commercial softwares that support creating HFS + partitions on Windows, but GParted is free. Now we will create the HFS+ partition with GParted.
- Run GParted and select the hard disk in the dropdown list at the top right. My hard disk is /dev/sda.
- You can only create new partitions if your hard disk has unallocated space. Right-click on the unallocated space and select New. You can also format existing partitions to HFS+. Right-click the existing partition, select Format to, and then select hfs+. Or delete the existing partition to recreate it.
- Select hfs+ in the File system. Then select and enter some information for the other items you want.
- Click Add, then click Apply to apply the changes.
The Mac OS Extended partition created by GParted will not be journaled. However, we can use Disk Utility to Enable Journaling. Or use the following command to format Mac OS Extended to Mac OS Extended (Journaled):
/dev/sdaX is the partition you want to format.
Gparted For Macbook
Convert to APFS
From the MacOS High Sierra version, Apple announced a new file system called APFS. By default, macOS High Sierra can only be installed on an APFS partition. You can use Disk Utility to convert Mac OS Extended partitions to APFS without losing data.
If the Mac OS Extended partition is not Journaled, please journaled it first. Run Disk Utility, select the Mac OS Extended partition in the left column, then select File and select Enable Journaling.
Download Gparted Iso
Now you can convert Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions to APFS without losing data. Just select Edit and select Convert to APFS…
Gparted Windows Portable
By using GParted with the simple steps above, we can easily create Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions and many other formats that Disk Utility does not support. If you need to create macOS High Sierra bootable USB from Windows, you can try Clover Boot Disk. Good luck!