

GParted is, as I said, a partition editor, that is, a software that serves as a utility to create, view, modify or erase partitions on a hard drive, pen drives, memory cards, etc. But before we start with the GParted tutorial, let's see a little theory to put you in place and find out what it is for. In the beginning it was and is the partition editor of the GNOME desktop environment, although there are alternatives like KDE Partition Manager for the alternative desktop to GNOME and many other tools, but perhaps GParted is the one that has become the most famous and therefore the most interesting to talk about here. Many of you will already know it, many others will have already used it on numerous occasions, but for the less expert or for those who still do not know this partition editing tool Open source under the GPL license and written in C ++, To say that it is not only useful for Linux, since there is a Live version to run from a disk or USB memory, being able to manage other partitions of other operating systems as long as they are supported. Of course, be careful since damaging a partition or deleting it can lead to the loss of your data, so be careful if you are not an expert.

For this you must know what it is, what it is for and its basic operation, which is what we will try to teach you in this post, so that you can start taking your first steps with it in a simpler way. In this article we introduce you to GParted, a powerful and complete tool that will help you get your hard drive ready.
