What GNOME Partition Editor does

GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) is a free, open-source graphical partition editor first released on August 26, 2004 by Bart Hakvoort as a GTK+/gtkmm GUI front-end to GNU Parted (libparted). It enables non-destructive creation, resizing, moving, copying, deletion, labelling, and UUID changes on disk partitions across msdos, GPT, and loop partition tables, and supports 30+ file systems (ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, ntfs, fat16/32, exfat, lvm2 pv, luks, bcachefs, f2fs, hfs/hfs+, jfs, reiserfs/reiser4, nilfs2, udf, ufs, zfs) by orchestrating each file system's native toolset (e2fsprogs, ntfs-3g, btrfs-progs, xfsprogs, dosfstools, cryptsetup, mdadm, bcachefs-tools, etc.). GParted Live, maintained by Steven Shiau since March 2008, is a small bootable Debian-Live-based GNU/Linux distribution that bundles the application for use on machines without an installed OS, supporting CD, USB, hard disk and PXE deployment on x86-64 hardware.

The project is stewarded by a small volunteer core team led by project administrator Curtis Gedak, with developer Mike Fleetwood, consultant François Dupoux, and IRC/forum administrator Jan Claeys; it has grown to more than 282 contributors, 60+ language translations, 34M+ SourceForge downloads, and use in 250+ countries over twenty years. Distribution is entirely free under the GNU GPL v2, with revenue limited to third-party display advertising on the project website and voluntary donations. The go-to-market is community-led and product-led: adoption is driven by inclusion in major Linux distributions, bundling into rescue toolkits (SystemRescue, Grml, Clonezilla Live), word-of-mouth, and a long tail of third-party tutorials and reviews in publications such as Softpedia, PCWorld, LifeWire, Linux Magazine, and XDA Developers.

Customer segments are fragmented and unserved commercially: home users, IT and system-administrator professionals, Linux and open-source enthusiasts, and downstream Linux distribution and rescue-tool maintainers. There is no incorporated legal entity, no funding rounds, no parent company, no equity, and no commercial pricing; the project is hosted under the GNOME umbrella and downloaded via SourceForge. Recent product cadence has been steady, with GParted 1.8.0 (Jan 2026), GParted 1.8.1 (Mar 2026), and GParted Live 1.8.1-3 (Apr 2026) reflecting ongoing maintenance rather than commercial expansion.

Name

GNOME Partition Editor

Legal name

GNOME Partition Editor

Website

https://gparted.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) is a free, open-source GTK GUI front-end to GNU Parted that lets home users, IT professionals, and Linux enthusiasts graphically create, resize, move, copy, label, and repair disk partitions across 30+ file systems, distributed as the GParted application and a bootable GParted Live image.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disk Partition Management Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Storage Virtualization & Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (HDABAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

HCI Storage & Distributed Storage (HDABAEAJ), Internal Storage Devices (HDD & SSD) (HDACACAA)

Keywords

• Disk partition manager
• Graphical partition editor
• Open source partition tool
• File system management
• Bootable rescue image

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Free software distribution: GParted is distributed at no cost under the GNU GPL v2. The application, the GParted Live bootable image, and all source code are provided free of charge.
2. Website advertising and donations: Official site is supported by third-party advertising (Google ad cookies; non-personalized in the EEA) and voluntary donations via a dedicated donations page.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) is a free, GTK-based graphical application that lets users create, resize, move, copy, label, set UUIDs on, and delete disk partitions across msdos, GPT, and loop partition tables and 30+ file systems (including btrfs, ext2/3/4, xfs, ntfs, exfat, lvm2 pv, LUKS, bcachefs, f2fs, hfs/hfs+, jfs, reiserfs/reiser4, nilfs2, udf, ufs, zfs). GParted Live, a small Debian-Live-based bootable Linux image, packages GParted with all the supporting native file-system tools so the same operations can be performed on machines without an installed operating system.

Product overview

GNOME Partition Editor ships a single unified product offering built around two tightly coupled components: the GParted application — a free, GPL-licensed GTK+/gtkmm GUI frontend to GNU parted/libparted that performs partition table and file-system operations on local disk devices — and GParted Live, a small bootable Debian-Live-based GNU/Linux distribution maintained by Steven Shiau that bundles the latest GParted application with all required file-system tools (e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs, ntfs-3g, xfsprogs, dosfstools, lvm2, cryptsetup, bcachefs-tools and many others) so that users can boot from CD, USB, hard disk or PXE and run GParted on machines without an installed operating system or when they need to edit partitions (including the active root or boot partition) that the host OS cannot safely manipulate while running.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GParted Live: Small bootable GNU/Linux distribution (based on Debian Live) that bundles the GParted application for use on x86-64 computers without a host OS installed.

Products and services

• GParted Free, GTK+-based graphical application for creating, resizing, moving, copying, checking, labeling, UUID-setting, and deleting disk device partitions. Supports msdos and GPT partition tables, a broad range of storage devices (HDD, SSD, NVMe, USB, hardware/software RAID), and many file systems including ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, ntfs, fat16/32, exfat, lvm2 pv, luks, bcachefs, f2fs, hfs/hfs+, jfs, reiserfs/reiser4, nilfs2, udf, ufs, zfs, apfs, bitlocker and refs. Distributed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
• GParted Live Small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86-64 based computers, based on Debian Live and maintained by Steven Shiau, that packages the latest GParted application together with the supporting filesystem tools (e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs, ntfs-3g, xfsprogs, dosfstools, lvm2, cryptsetup, bcachefs-tools, and more) so partitions can be resized, moved, or repaired even when the host operating system is not bootable. Distributed as a live ISO/USB image (only amd64 images are produced from GParted Live 1.7.0-12 onward) and requires a minimum of 1 GB of RAM to use all GParted features.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 34 million downloads from SourceForge alone (as of 2024 anniversary milestone)
• +4 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration19 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• GNU Parted (libparted)coreTechnology or IntegrationGParted is built as a graphical front-end to GNU Parted (libparted); the project depends on Parted >= 1.7.1, and many native file-system operations are exposed through libparted. The libparted library is treated as the underlying engine, with the GParted team contributing fixes back upstream.
• gtkmm (GTK C++ bindings)coreTechnology or IntegrationGParted requires gtkmm >= 2.8.x as the C++ GUI toolkit dependency. gtkmm is the GNOME C++ wrapper around GTK used to build the GParted interface.
• GNOME ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGParted is hosted under the GNOME umbrella: the source code lives at gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted, IRC is hosted on irc.gnome.org (#gparted), and legacy bug tracking ran on GNOME Bugzilla. The project migrated bugs from GNOME Bugzilla to GNOME Gitlab.
• Clonezilla / Steven ShiaumajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSteven Shiau, who also maintains Clonezilla, became GParted Live maintainer in March 2008 and based GParted Live on Debian Live in the same manner as Clonezilla Live, sharing infrastructure and expertise between the two projects.
• Debian ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGParted Live is currently based on Debian Live using the Debian Sid repository (e.g., 'as of 2026/Apr/04' for Live 1.8.1-3); packages are pulled from Debian mirrors. Following Debian's i386 kernel drop, only amd64 (x86-64) GParted Live images are produced from release 1.7.0-12 onward.
• SourceForgecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSourceForge (group_id=115843) is the official download host for GParted application binaries and GParted Live images and has delivered more than 34 million downloads as of the 20-year anniversary in 2024.
• Packt PublishingminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPackt Publishing published the 'Manage Partitions with GParted How-to' book authored by Curtis Gedak; a sample chapter ('Moving space between partitions') is hosted on gparted.org with Packt's permission to drive adoption.
• e2fsprogscoreTechnology or Integratione2fsprogs provides the underlying utilities (mkfs.ext2/3/4, e2fsck, blkid) that GParted uses to detect, create, grow, shrink, check, label, and change UUIDs on ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems; required version v1.41+ for ext4 detection and UUID support.
• ntfs-3g / ntfsprogscoreTechnology or IntegrationGParted integrates ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to detect, create, resize, label, and change UUIDs on NTFS partitions, including the special ntfsclone-based copy operation for NTFS.
• btrfs-progs / btrfs-toolscoreTechnology or Integrationbtrfs-progs provides the toolkit used by GParted for detect, create, grow, shrink (online), check, label, and UUID operations on btrfs file systems.
• xfsprogs / xfsdumpcoreTechnology or Integrationxfsprogs and xfsdump are used by GParted to detect, create, grow, copy (xfsdump/xfsrestore), check, label, and change UUIDs on XFS file systems.
• exfatprogsmajorTechnology or Integrationexfatprogs provides detect, read, create, move, copy, check, label, and UUID capabilities for the exFAT file system in GParted.
• bcachefs-toolsmajorTechnology or Integrationbcachefs-tools provides the toolkit GParted uses to detect, create, grow, move, copy, and check the bcachefs file system (introduced/expanded in recent releases such as SystemRescue 13 with Linux 6.18).
• cryptsetup / dmsetupcoreTechnology or Integrationcryptsetup (with dmsetup from device-mapper) enables GParted to detect, open/close, move, copy, and grow LUKS-encrypted partitions.
• mdadm (Linux software RAID)majorTechnology or Integrationmdadm provides detect, read, move, and copy support for Linux RAID (linux-raid) devices in GParted.
• LVM2coreTechnology or IntegrationLVM2 provides GParted's lvm2 pv support, including detect, read, create, grow (online), shrink (online), move, and check operations on LVM physical volumes.
• dosfstoolscoreTechnology or Integrationdosfstools powers GParted's FAT16/FAT32 file-system support; mtools is also used for labels and UUIDs on FAT file systems.
• util-linuxcoreTechnology or Integrationutil-linux provides swaplabel (>=v2.18) and blkid (>=v2.18/v2.20/v2.23/v2.24) used by GParted for linux-swap labelling, exFAT, nilfs2, f2fs, and refs detection, plus core linux-swap/minix support.
• SystemRescuemajorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerSystemRescue includes GParted and ships GParted Live-related updates; SystemRescue 13 (released April 2026) ships Linux 6.18 and enhanced bcachefs/GParted support.
• GrmlminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerGrml is mentioned alongside SystemRescue as another rescue distribution that bundles GParted; grml patches are credited for the GParted Live iso-from-grub support.
• GNU Project (Free Software Foundation)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGParted is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (or, at the user's option, any later version), and is officially positioned as a GNOME/GTK free-software project consistent with GNU's free-software philosophy.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• TestDisk / CGSecurity: Free open-source partition recovery and disk repair tool, bundled in GParted Live and frequently referenced in GParted's MBR repair documentation. Adjacent rather than overlapping, but addresses the same partition-recovery use case.

Direct peers

• SystemRescue: Arch Linux-based rescue distribution that bundles GParted as a core tool. Direct peer in the rescue/bootable-environment category, sharing the IT professional and sysadmin user base.
• Parted Magic: Commercial bootable Linux distribution (formerly free) focused on disk partitioning and rescue, historically using GParted as its core partition editor. Comparable as a GParted-based rescue/partitioning environment.
• Clonezilla: Free open-source disk/partition cloning and imaging tool maintained by Steven Shiau, who also maintains GParted Live. Shares infrastructure, base technology (Debian Live), and a tightly overlapping IT/sysadmin audience.
• KDE Partition Manager: Open-source GTK/Qt-based GUI partition editor for Linux, also a frontend to libparted. Directly comparable to GParted as a free partition manager for the Linux desktop with overlapping file-system support.

Broad incumbents

• EaseUS Partition Master: Proprietary, widely-used Windows partition manager with a large commercial user base. Comparable to GParted as a partition-editing solution for end users, but with paid tiers and Windows-first focus.
• Paragon Partition Manager: Long-standing commercial partition manager (now also offered for business/enterprise use). Comparable to GParted in core partition operations, with a broader cross-OS product portfolio.
• MiniTool Partition Wizard: Established proprietary partition manager with a free tier and paid editions, widely marketed to Windows consumers. Competes with GParted for the same 'home user resizing C: drive' use case.
• AOMEI Partition Assistant: Proprietary partition manager popular among Windows power users and IT admins, with a free Standard edition. Overlaps with GParted on resize/move/clone use cases.
• Macrorit Disk Partition Expert: Windows-focused commercial partition manager offering free and paid editions. Competes for the same end-user disk partition management workflows as GParted.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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