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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.

Not only does GParted provide all users with a free utility for managing partition tables, the project also offers live CD. This Live CD is a very small Linux distribution. Using the Live CD to boot a PC will ensure the file systems a user is going to work with are not mounted, or to put it in laymen's terms, the file system will not be in use.

When the live CD boots the user will be greeted with a graphical interface powered by X.org and the Fluxbox window manager.

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