Many people have come to me and asked for a decent utility to edit partition tables. This is often not a question directly relating to Linux, but more pointedly targeted at Windows. Sometimes, however, this question is a precursor to installing Linux in a dual boot operation.
Before live distribution and more accurately GParted, users would need a utility, at cost, such as Partition Magic. Most home users do not want to fork over the cash for a utility they will use once, maybe twice. Enter GParted.
GParted is the Gnome Partition Manager. The GParted utility is designed specifically edit a computer's partition manager. GParted supports multiple file systems including, fat16, fa32, ntfs, ext3 and other Linux file systems.