Live Usb Gparted

[Qiana Thieklin]

GPartedLive is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86based computers.

It enables you to use all the features ofthe latest versions of the GParted application.

GParted Live can be installed on CD, USB, PXE server, and Hard Diskthen run on an x86 machine.

To install GParted Live on CD, download the.iso file and burn it as an image to a CD.

For other installations, please refer to the following documents:

GParted Live on USB

GParted Live on PXE server

GParted Live on Hard Disk

Add packages in GParted Live

Create your own custom GParted Livefrom scratch

See the GPartedLive Manual for instructions on how to use the Live image.

See the GParted Manualfor instructions on how to use the application for partitioningtasks.

See the documentation page for copiesof the GParted Manual in other languages.

For x86-based Apple machines before 2012, e.g., iMac5.1 or iMac11.1, you might need to add "nomodeset enforcing=0 xforcevesa vga=791" in the boot parameters so that GParted live can boot successfully. For more info, please refer to this.

GParted live is based on Debian live, and the default account is "user", with password "live". There is no root password, so if you need root privileges, login as "user", then run "sudo" to get root privileges.

i have recently removed ubuntu and installed debian on my entire hdd. currently /dev/sda1, the partition debian is on, takes up almost all of /dev/sda, minus 3gb which is a swap partion. i would like to dual boot fedora, which i have on a live version on a usb. however when trying to install fedora, it was giving me a hard time resizing the /dev/sda1 partion so i could complete the install.

i figured i could just boot the live usb of fedora, open gparted, and resize the partions that way. however, for some reason after sudo apt-get install synaptic;synaptic is not able to be found on the live fedora... so i did sudo apt-get install gparted;and similarly i, after seemingly installing both synaptic and gparted, am unable to find either on the live fedora.

Fedora does not use the Debian family package managers, apt-get, aptitude, apt-cache... It has its own package manager called yum: you ought to look it up here. This way you will certainly find Gparted.

I have installed Ubuntu using a usb and everything was fine until i had to restart my computer.It had the booting error. My computer is a toshiba. I tried looking at my bootings and the usb was on top. I also tried multiple things but have not worked. I heard that accessing gparted to access the boot flag might help me. But I dont know where to find it. please help.

To solve your problem, you need to get the Ubuntu installation disk you used to install Ubuntu on the USB and boot it up. Then, click on Try Ubuntu. When the desktop loads up, head over to the terminal and type in sudo apt-get install gparted gpart. If asked, hit y followed by return. Then, launch gparded with sudo gparted. After gparted loads, click on GParted on the top menubar, Devices, and the USB device you installed Ubuntu on. Then, unmount the partition by rightclicking on the partition and then hitting "Unmount". Then, right click again on the partition and click on "Manage Flags". Finally, click on the boot flag option and press close. The boot partition should now have the needed boot flag.

Now, from a more general perspective, I was thinking on whether it is possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD and use GParted in a live session to possibly go around that problem. Is that possible? I made a separate question as I'm interested in the possibility independently from my current problem.

On my linux systems, I actually skip using the CD or USB and simply use the from Hard drive option. So long as you use the "To RAM" option on your boot line, the hard drive is completely re-arrangeable when you are in GParted's environment.

In addition to writing the GParted Live image to CD and to USB media,the GParted Live image can also be placed on a hard disk drive. Thefollowing sections describe how to do this for the GRUB and LILO bootloaders.

In this example we use the grub boot loader. You have to put theGParted live files in a FAT, ext2, ext3, reiserfs or some other grubsupported partition.

If you do not have such a partition, you canuse gparted to resize an existingpartition to free up space and then create another partition to putGParted Live. From this point on we assume you already have a FATpartition /dev/sda4 to put GParted live. Following are the set upsteps:

whenever i try to install gparted via the webui it starts the download and then just freezes (the terminal window displayed on the ui). It never finishes even when left alone for a few hours. I can not find any errors in the syslog. Is there a way to do the same from cli (as in integrate into grub and the webui)?

i see. i remember it working in omv 5 but that was running bare metal. just to be sure: i am talking about the webui setting to install it as a boot option - you could select to boot gparted instead of omv via grub

Apparently, since GParted 0.22.x, support for UEFI motherboards has been added to the application, which results in the necessity for it to be set in VirtualBox. It might be a bug, but since the workaround is fairly easy I can live with that.

I have one single LVM with Ubuntu MATE installed as my only OS (see pic) which I wish to split into two, one for the OS and one for my data. I have tried to re-partition from the live USB using GParted but am unable to unmount the volume. If I close GParted I can eject/unmount from the file explorer, but then when I open Gparted again the volumes are locked (with the key icon) and have disappeared from the file explorer menu.

Thanks.

Ironically it seems the LVM, which advertises itself in making guided partitioning easier, is the thing that prevents the volumes from being unlocked. I did a clean install without using LVM, and was then able to resize and create partitions at will from the live USB. All good now. I appreciate the help.

There is an icon on desktop for "Ubuntu Software Center", if I open it - it states that gparted is installed, but there is no icon to launch gparted on desktop. Also there is no menu with installed programs.Also there is no icon to start terminal.

Hi all,

looking for a new distro to revive my laptop I found elive and I fell immediately in love

So I want it installed but... when trying to install to disc from live, the installer can't recognize correctly my disk layout so I cannot choose the root partition.

My laptop is an Asus UX301 with 2 ssd disks: they are bound together in a raid 0 through something called fake raid. They are also already partitioned with my preferred configuration so during the installation I don't need to make any change, just select the root partition for the elive OS.

So I choose DONE in the installer's partitioning window but the next step showed me only one entire ssd disk to choose, as if it didn't recognize that there is a raid and many partitions above it.

Clearly the installer cannot recognize my fakeraid, but the strange is that if I choose the gparted option instead, it shows the exact configuration, with the raid and all my partitions well existent and safe. Why the installer does not?

fake raid is a BIOS implemented contrrol of a disk array and has a few variations, so it's hard to to offer explicit advice but if "gparted" recognizes the partitioning scheme: there shouldn't be any worry.

During install you are given the option to use gparted to set your system as wanted by the installer.

After that the installer will continue with the choices you have made and continue installing and everything should work out.

may be I'm missing something...

gparted doesn't allow me to mount that partition, the option is grayed. I can only format or label. So I choose to format it to ext4 just to be sure and then I quit gparted to continue with the installer.

The next screen was again the "select a hard disk partitioning option" screen with the list automatic/windows/gparted/gnome-disks/help/done, the same from where gparted has been launched before.

So this time I choose "done" since the partitioning is ok.

Well, the next screen, instead of my usual 8 partitions, shows only one item and the wrong one:

/dev/sdb1 119GB (isw_raid_member)

Back in the summer i had a similiar issue. HP pizzabox and i just put couple of 500gb hdds there and then raid'ed them in the bios. Fought with the installer for a few hours and then forgot about it until now. heh.

Remembered now that later i read this article and thought i'd try it, but forgot to do that too. This might help : DebianInstaller/SataRaid - Debian Wiki

Thank you @Wizor, I really saw a little light in the tunnel and immediately tried your suggestion but no, it not helped in my case Also with that option in the kernel the installer cannot see the right partition.

I suspect that the installer sees the correct disk as /dev/sdb but doesn't show the mapped partitions yet.

The naming scheme can be messy sometimes and lead to wrong assumptions and choices.

For one, /dev/mapper entries wouldn't be the real device name but those created by the volume mapper and are probably inside /dev/sdb...... that can be confusing as after all, they're not physical partitions .

I myself have never worked with fake-raid (only encrypted LVM partitions), so I'm not sure and thus don't want to advise into simply carrying on (although I suspect you can) ..... unless you've made backups of everything you want to keep and know how to put them back.

Anyway I attempted to go on, so I choose /dev/sdb1 for root, crossed my fingers and clicked on OK to proceed with the installation... and the installer got stuck on "arranging some atoms in the universe" for at least 30 minutes, after which I stopped all with the cancel button.

After a reboot, I saw that nothing has been written on my disks since all my partitions are safe and sound (yes, I have a full backup )

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