How To Install parted on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parted on Ubuntu.
What is parted
parted is:
GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
This package contains the binary and manual page. Further documentation is available in parted-doc.
Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS, and PC98 partitioning formats, as well as a “loop” (raw disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. It can detect and remove ASFS/AFFS/APFS, Btrfs, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, HFS, JFS, linux-swap, UFS, XFS, and ZFS file systems. Parted also has the ability to create and modify file systems of some of these types, but using it to perform file system operations is now deprecated.
The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss. While there are no such bugs known at the moment, they could exist, so please back up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk.
There are three methods to install parted on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install parted Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install parted using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install parted
Install parted Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install parted using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install parted
Install parted Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install parted using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install parted
How To Uninstall parted on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the parted package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove parted
Uninstall parted And Its Dependencies
To uninstall parted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove parted
Remove parted Configurations and Data
To remove parted configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge parted
Remove parted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove parted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge parted
Dependencies
parted have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parted package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.