$ sudo dd if=/home/steve/Downloads/gparted-live-0.29.0-1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync
Partitioning hard drives is about the only thing I ever use GParted Live for, and that's its main purpose. The system boots up, and GParted is started automatically:
GParted uses the Fluxbox window manager. Here's a shot of the empty desktop:
GParted Live ships with other tools besides GParted, including:
PCManFM 1.2.5
NetSurf 3.6
LXTerminal 0.3.0
Leafpad 0.8.18.1
GSmartControl 1.0.1
Partition Image 0.6.9
NetSurf didn't work for me out of the box, so I didn't concern myself with it:
I don't know why the Calcoo calculator is included, but it's pretty cool:
The lower-level tool xcalc is also available, for those who want something simpler.
GSmartControl, as described here, "is a graphical user interface for
smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it."
Here's a shot:
Tools that don't appear in the Fluxbox menu can be found by examining the /usr/bin and /usr/share/applications directories. Some included command-line utilities:
fsarchiver - File system archiver and restorer
partclone - Backup partitions into a compressed image file (e.g., partclone.ext4)
partimage - Backup partitions into a compressed image file
testdisk - Data recovery tool that can help recover lost partitions
gpart - (Older) data recovery tool that can help recover lost msdos partition tables
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader for restoring GRUB 2 boot loader
mc - Text based file manager known as Midnight Commander
nano - Text editor
vim-tiny - Enhanced vi text editor
parted - Partition table editor
fdisk - MSDOS partition table editor
sfdisk - MSDOS partition table editor also useful to save/restore partition table to/from a file
gdisk - GPT partition table editor
sgdisk - GPT partition table editor also useful to save/restore partition table to/from a file
gptsync - GPT and MSDOS partition tables synchronization tool useful for Mac OS X users
openssh - Secure shell (ssh) connectivity tool suite
screen - Screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
ping - Check network connectivity to another host on a network
rsync - Fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
telnet - Communicate with another host using the TELNET protocol
traceroute - Print the route packets trace to network host
bc - Arbitrary precision calculator language
So, GParted Live can be used for a lot of things. While partitions on a hard drive or flash drive are not, by default, automatically mounted and accessible from GParted Live, I was able to access my hard drives, as well as another flash drive, by creating a mount point and then mounting the partition. I think I had to use sudo, but it didn't prompt me for a password. To get access to my drive's sda6 partition, for example, I used the following commands (after taking a look at the output from the lsblk command):
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sda6
$ sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6
I used a similar routine to mount and access a flash drive (at /dev/sdc).
GParted Live's repository files are at /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/drbl-repository.list. As you can see below, GParted Live is based on Debian Sid. The contents of the sources.list file:
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian sid main non-free
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian sid main non-free
And, the contents of the drbl-repository.list file:
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core drbl unstable live-unstable
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core drbl unstable live-unstable
For download links and (much) more information, visit: http://gparted.org/livecd.php
Also, see the GParted Live page at DistroWatch: https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
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