Hard Drive Partition Formatting Application
by Victor | August 30, 2008 in Applications | 1 Comment
You may already know that a hard drive on Windows is formatted as Fat32 or NTFS partions. But how do you convert from a popular file system to one that you need in Linux? GParted is free software that through an easy to use interface allows the format and partition of an entire hard drive.
The supported file systems are:
- ext2
- ext3
- fat16
- fat32
- hfs
- hfs+
- jfs
- linux-swap
- ntfs
- reiser4
- reiserfs
- ufs
- xfs
The application is most easily downloaded as a Live CD (which is a CD that can be automatically booted during startup from the console). Before using this application, be sure to back up any information on the drive, as the operations will clear all data.
The application can be downloaded from their website at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/. The latest version as of the writing of this article is version 0.3.8
