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If there's one thing you need when you write about Linux, it's a good partition manager, because writing about Linux gives you the perfect excuse to install new distros, break old ones, and update the un-updateable. Sooner or later, your drive will need tearing down and repartitioning. GParted is brilliant for this. It does everything you need and is available by default on almost every Live CD and USB stick. KDE Partition Manager, which is very similar to GParted, performs many of the same functions, although it also competes with GParted and as a result does a few things that GParted doesn't. After a few great recent updates, for example, it was the first GUI tool that could resize my encrypted partitions – a feature that should be at the top of everyone's list, now that we're all using encryption.
Recent updates have culminated in a major revision with the release of version 3. LVM specifically has received a lot of love. KDE Partition Manager now supports both LVM on LUKS (encrypted partitions) and LUKS on LVM; the creation of new LVM volume groups, along with the ability to resize both logical and physical logical volumes; and the removal of physical volumes from the LVM volume group. More can now be done without booting to an external USB stick, too. Ext4 partitions can now be grown, for example, whereas Btrfs partitions can be both grown and shrunk. Like GParted, KDE Partition Manager also works just as well without KDE. KDE in general has been able to dump the huge library dependencies that used to blight its cross-desktop credentials, which may make KDE Partition Manager an even better match as a replacement for GParted, especially if you're dealing with encrypted data and LVM partitioning schemes.
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