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KDE Partition Manager # KDE Partition Manager
=====================
### WARNING <img src="https://invent.kde.org/kde/partitionmanager/raw/master/icons/sc-apps-partitionmanager.svg" align="right"
title="KDE Partition Manager logo" width="96" height="96">
KDE Partition Manager is a potentially dangerous program for your data. It has KDE Partition Manager is an application to help you manage the disk devices,
been tested carefully and there are currently no known bugs that could lead to partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create,
data loss, but nevertheless there is always a chance for an error to ocurr and copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.
you might lose your data.
### BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE! A large number of file systems are also supported:
- ext2/3/4, Btrfs, Linux swap
- Reiserfs
- F2FS
- NTFS
- FAT
- exFAT
- LUKS encryption support
- and more....
This software allows you to manage your disks, partitions and file systems: :zap: **Back up your data before using this software**. KDE Partition Manager is
Create, resize, delete, copy, backup and restore partitions with a large number a potentially dangerous program for your data. It has been tested carefully and
of supported file systems: there are currently no known bugs that could lead to data loss, but nevertheless
* ext2/3/4 there is always a chance for an error to ocur and you might lose your data.
* Btrfs
* Linux swap
* Reiserfs
* F2FS
* NTFS
* FAT
* exFAT
* LUKS encryption support
* and more....
It is a KF5 application, so you will need KDE frameworks libraries to run it on <img src="https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-sysadmin/partitionmanager/resize_howto_4.png" align="center"
your computer. It also makes use of external programs to get its job done, so title="KDE Partition Manager" width="800">
## Installation
KDE Partition Manager is a KF5 application, so you will need the
[KDE frameworks](https://www.kde.org/products/frameworks/) libraries to run it
on your computer. Most modern OSs will install them as dependencies
for you when you use their default package manager as the installation method.
It also makes use of external programs to get its job done, so
you might have to install additional software (preferably packages from your you might have to install additional software (preferably packages from your
distribution) to make use of all features and get full support for all file distribution) to make use of all features and get full support for all file
systems. systems.
For quick install instructions see INSTALL. The methods listed below for each major OS are based on executing the
installation commands on a terminal window. Alternatively, you can use
your OS' package management app.
For a list of changes since the previous release see CHANGES. ### Ubuntu
```
sudo apt install partitionmanager
```
### Debian
As the `root` user:
```
apt install partitionmanager
```
### CentOS, Fedora, RHEL
```
sudo yum install kde-partitionmanager
```
### OpenSUSE
```
sudo zypper install partitionmanager
```
### ArchLinux
1. Enable the community repository on `/etc/pacman.conf`:
```
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
```
1. Install the `partitionmanager` xz package:
```
# pacman -Sy partitionmanager
```
### From source
See [INSTALL](INSTALL).
## Changelog
For a list of changes since the previous release see [CHANGES](CHANGES).