The GParted Live CD will be released soon

Mar 23, 2015 22:11 GMT  ·  By

The popular GParted application, an open-source disk utility used in numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems for partitioning disk drives, as well as to resize and merge partitions on any disk drive, has reached today, March 23, version 0.22.0.

Two major features have been injected in Gparted 0.22.0. The first one is read and write support for unpartitioned whole disk drives, which means that the software will be able to recognize and format disk drives that don’t have a partition table.

The second feature brings read and write support for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition names, which means that users will now be able to set and view names of their GPT partitions.

GParted 0.22.0 also includes various bugfixes, among which we can mention a double quote error when creating XFS filesystems, swap usage will now match the numbers reported by the “swapon -s” command, as well as LVM signature support on unpartitioned disk drives.

Last but not least, the NILFS2 filesystem is now supported under the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6 operating systems, automatic mounting of disks is now prevented via udisks2-inhibit, and several translations have been updated. Download GParted 0.22.0 right now from Softpedia.