High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GNU Parted (the name being the conjunction of the two words PARTition and EDitor) is a free partition editor, used for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It was written by Andrew Clausen and Lennert Buytenhek.