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Resizing Linux Partitions Using Gparted May Cause Data Loss

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http://www.ubuntux.org – Are you resizing your Linux hard drive partitions using Gparted utility? Create an absolute backup of your valuable data before your proceed. Gparted provides you advanced and easy methods to perform a number of operations on your Linux volumes. However, in some cases, re-sizing the partition with Gparted utility can become very problematic. It may corrupt the volumes and cause critical data loss situations. In order to recover lost data in such circumstances, Linux Data Recovery becomes need of hour. Gparted is an inbuilt tool in Linux operating system, which enables you to create, (Distributions)

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The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.  A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The gparted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partition.

GParted, a partitioning utility for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions with the help of tools that allow managing filesystems, is now at version 0.16.1. Gparted 0.16.1 now provides users with the ability to move, resize, check, create, and delete physical volumes under Logical Volume Management (lvm2 pv).

I was going to install a completely fresh Linux distribution (Mageia) and I saw it as an opportunity to reorganize my partitions.

Modern computers allow you to install two or more operating systems on a single hard disk. This configuration is known as ‘Multi-Boot’. Every operating system, such as Linux, employs one or more hard drive partitions. The way in which hard drive partitions and data is arranged, is known as hard drive geometry.

GParted, a partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions with the help of tools that allow managing filesystems, is now at version 0.14.0. Gparted 0.14.1 Beta 1 now provides users with the ability to move, resize, check, create, and delete physical volumes under Logical Volume Management (lvm2 pv).

I have several partitions on a laptop and the last one on the end of the hard drive (sda) is now showing as "unallocated" within gParted, after I plaid around with some in front of it.

It has not been formatted or resized, or moved, but gParted shows it as "unallocated". It was an ext3 partition.

GParted Live, a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 based computers that enables users to take advantage of all the features the latest versions of the GParted application have, is now at version 0.14.0.

GParted LiveCD 0.14.0 now comes with the ability to move, resize, check, create, and delete Physical Volumes under Logical Volume Management – LVM2 PV.

GParted messed up my partitions 14 weeks 2 hours ago

Update: running testdisk I can actually see all of my files in /dev/sda1!

I wanted to install Windows alongside my Debian installation in order to play some games. In order to do that, I had to boot up a Ubuntu Live 12.1 DVD and use GParted (I was resizing my main partition which had everything).

The resizing finished successfully.