KDE Partition Manager

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KDE Partition Manager
Original author(s)Volker Lanz
Developer(s)Andrius Štikonas, Caio Jordão Carvalho
Initial release1.0.0alpha1 (18 September 2008; 15 years ago (2008-09-18))
Stable release
23.08.3[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 9 November 2023
Repository
Written inC++ (Qt)
TypePartition editor
License2015[a]: GPL-3.0-or-later[2]
2008[b]: GPL-2.0-or-later
Websiteapps.kde.org/partitionmanager/ Edit this on Wikidata

KDE Partition Manager is a disk partitioning application originally written by Volker Lanz for the KDE Platform. It was first released for KDE SC 4.1 and is released independently of the central KDE release cycle. After the death of Volker Lanz in April 2014,[3] Andrius Štikonas continued the development and took over as the maintainer.

It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). Additionally, KDE Partition Manager can back up file systems to files and restore such backups.[4][5]

It uses util-linux to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for manipulating file systems. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of KDE Partition Manager.

As is the case with most KDE applications, KDE Partition Manager is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit. Released under the GNU General Public License, KDE Partition Manager is free software.

Release history[edit]

Colour Meaning
Red Release no longer supported
Green Release still supported
Blue Future release
Major Version Minor Version Release date Notes
1.0 1.0.0alpha1 18 September 2008[6] Initial release.
1.0 1.0.0alpha2 24 September 2008 Important bugs fixed.
1.0 1.0.0beta1a 13 January 2009 Crashes and bugs fixed, ext4 support.
1.0 1.0.0beta2 30 April 2009 Bugs fixed. Introduces the KCModule.
1.0 1.0.0beta3 4 June 2009 Bugs fixed. Speed and usability improvements.
1.0 1.0.0rc1 3 August 2009 Bugs fixed.
1.0 1.0.0 18 August 2009 First stable
1.0 1.0.1 9 January 2010 Bugs fixed.
1.0 1.0.2 24 April 2010 Bugs fixed. Usability improvement.
1.0 1.0.3 1 September 2010 Bugs fixed. Usability improvements.
1.1 1.1.0 10 July 2014[7] New features, support for 4096 byte sectors, Btrfs, GPT, exFAT, NILFS 2, and more. First release by Andrius Štikonas.
1.1 1.1.1 15 February 2015 Bugs fixed.
1.2 1.2.0 15 February 2015[8] New features. Ported to KDE Frameworks 5. Switched license to GPL-3.0-or-later.[9]
1.2 1.2.1 17 February 2015 Bug fixed.
2.0 2.0.0 15 January 2016 Splitting user interface and partitioning library. Bugs fixed.
2.0 2.0.3 24 February 2016 Bugs fixed.
2.1 2.1.0 11 March 2016 Minimal support for F2FS.
2.2 2.2.1 27 May 2016 Support for LUKS.[10]
3.0 3.0.0 18 December 2016 Support for LVM.
3.2 3.2.1 7 October 2017 UDF support.
3.3 3.3.1 14 December 2017 Better LVM and LUKS2 support.[11]
4.0 4.0.0 01 May 2019 KPMcore backend was ported away from libparted to sfdisk (part of util-linux).

Caio Jordão Carvalho ported S.M.A.R.T. code away from unmaintained libatasmart to smartmontools.

Better support for LUKS2.

Detection support for Apple's APFS filesystem and Microsoft's Bitlocker.[12]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ GPL-3.0-or-later since 2015-08-03, version 1.2.0.
  2. ^ GPL-2.0-or-later since 2008-09-18, from version 1.0.0alpha1 to 1.1.1

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Releases 23.08.3 2023-11-09". 9 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Use GPLv3 copyright notices". Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  3. ^ "KDE Software Compilation 4.14". 20 August 2014. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  4. ^ Darkcrizt (2019-05-10). "KDE Partition Manager, the KDE partition editor comes with a new version 4.0". Linux Adictos. Archived from the original on 2024-03-10. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
  5. ^ Nestor, Marius (2016-12-19). "KDE Partition Manager 3.0.0 Supports LVM on LUKS and LUKS on LVM Configurations". Softpedia. Archived from the original on 2024-03-10. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
  6. ^ "KDE Partition Manager 1.0.0alpha1 release notes". Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  7. ^ "KDE Partition Manager 1.1.0 Release". Retrieved 2014-08-23.
  8. ^ "KDE Partition Managers 1.1.1 and 1.2.1". Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  9. ^ "Switch license to GPLv3+". Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  10. ^ "LUKS partition support in KDE Partition Manager". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  11. ^ "KDE Partition Manager 3.3 and future work « Andrius Štikonas". stikonas.eu. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  12. ^ "KDE Partition Manager 4.0 « Andrius Štikonas". stikonas.eu. Retrieved 2019-09-08.

External links[edit]

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