Live CD/USB/PXE/HD
GParted Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86
based computers.
It enables you to use all the features of
the latest versions of the GParted application.
GParted Live can be installed on CD, USB, PXE server, and Hard Disk
then run on an x86 machine.
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CAUTION:
Creating a whole disk or partition image backup is recommended before
you resize or move a partition. Some free software (GPL) disk and
partition image tools are available: |
Installation Instructions
To install GParted Live on CD, download the
.iso file and burn it as an image to a CD.
For other installations, please refer to the following documents:
GParted Live on USB
GParted Live on PXE server
GParted Live on Hard Disk
Create your own custom GParted Live
from scratch
Accounts in GParted live
GParted live is based on Debian live, and the default account is "user", with password "live". There is no root password, so if you need root privileges, login as "user", then run "sudo" to get root privileges.
Available boot parameters
You can find the available boot parameters for GParted live here.
Included Packages
GParted Live includes additional packages, such as:
| mlterm | - Multilingual terminal emulator (provides access to command line) |
| fsarchiver | - File system archiver and restorer |
| partimage | - Backup partitions into a compressed image file |
| testdisk | - Data recovery tool that can help recover lost partitions |
| gpart | - (Older) data recovery tool that can help recover lost msdos partition tables |
| pcmanfm | - Graphical file manager |
| mc | - Text based file manager known as Midnight Commander |
| leafpad | - Graphical text editor |
| nano | - Text based text editor |
| vim-tiny | - Enhanced vi text editor |
| parted | - Partition table editor (command line based) |
| fdisk | - MSDOS partition table editor (command line based) |
| sfdisk | - MSDOS partition table editor also useful to save/restore partition table to/from a file (command line based) |
| gdisk | - GPT partition table editor (command line based) |
| sgdisk | - GPT partition table editor also useful to save/restore partition table to/from a file (command line based) |
| gptsync | - GPT and MSDOS partition tables synchronization tool useful for Mac OS X users (command line based) |
| openssh | - Secure shell (ssh) connectivity tool suite |
| netsurf | - Small web browser |
To view all of the included packages you can either:
refer to the "packages-x.y.z-w.txt" file in the
download directory,
or
view the file "live/packages.txt" file inside the
GParted Live iso file or zip file.
