Preface

Manage Partitions with GParted is a practical, hands-on guide that provides step-by-step instructions, including screenshots, to effectively use your hard drive.

With this book you start with simple tasks that help you to identify drives and partitions. Next you progress to tasks covering the basics of how to grow, shrink, move, and copy partitions without data loss. You finish with advanced tasks that leverage the basic tasks to prepare for new operating systems, migrate space between partitions, and share data among Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.

By following through the tasks, from basic to advanced, this book will empower you with the knowledge and tools to manage partitions with GParted.