GNU fdisk AlternativesPartition Managers and other similar apps like GNU fdisk

GNU fdisk is described as 'Fdisk is a command-line utility that provides disk partitioning functions. It includes an ncurses disk partitioning utility called "cfdisk"' and is a partition manager in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to GNU fdisk for Linux, Windows, KDE Plasma and GNOME. The best GNU fdisk alternative is GParted, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU fdisk are EaseUS Partition Master, GNOME Disks, AOMEI Partition Assistant and KDE Partition Manager.

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  1. GParted icon
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    Handle disk partitions efficiently with this GTK+ frontend. Create, delete, resize, or move partitions, and use GParted Live for full features on various OS platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. Supports NTFS resizing and enables disk cloning on x86 systems.

    35 GParted alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    fdisk has more options to edit the device such as writing an MBR as a major one whereas GParted just let's you change the table.

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    • GParted is the most popular Linux alternative to GNU fdisk.

    • GParted is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNU fdisk.

    • GParted is Free and Open SourceGNU fdisk is also Free and Open Source
    • GParted is LightweightGNU fdisk is not according to our users
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    EaseUS Partition Master offers powerful partitioning features like resize, copy, and format, with additional recovery and disk optimization tools. The intuitive interface supports advanced needs, with the Home Edition supporting basic tasks and the Pro Edition offering deeper dynamic disk handling for businesses.

    47 EaseUS Partition Master alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • EaseUS Partition Master is the most popular Windows alternative to GNU fdisk.

    • EaseUS Partition Master is Freemium and ProprietaryGNU fdisk is Free and Open Source
    • EaseUS Partition Master is LightweightGNU fdisk is not according to our users
  3. GNOME Disks icon
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    Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.

    35 GNOME Disks alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
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    Safely manage and resize your disk partitions without risk of data loss, using sector-level data protection. Supports MBR, GPT disks, drives over 2TB, migration between disks, allocation of free space, and advanced partitioning tasks for Windows systems.

    34 AOMEI Partition Assistant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.

    31 KDE Partition Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  6. GNU Parted icon
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    GNU Parted manipulates partition tables. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data on hard disks and disk imaging. The package contains a library, libparted, as well as well as a command-line frontend, parted, which can...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. blivet-gui icon
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    blivet-gui is a graphical tool for storage management that uses blivet library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  8. Diskpart icon
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    diskpart is a command-line hard disk partitioning utility included in versions of the Windows NT operating system line from Windows 2000 onwards, replacing fdisk which was used in MS-DOS based operating systems.

    31 Diskpart alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. gpart icon
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    Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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