KDE Partition Manager


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, 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. Additionally, KDE Partition Manager can back up file systems to files and restore such backups.
It uses util-linux to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several 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

Major VersionMinor VersionRelease dateNotes
1.01.0.0alpha118 September 2008Initial release.
1.01.0.0alpha224 September 2008Important bugs fixed.
1.01.0.0beta1a13 January 2009Crashes and bugs fixed, ext4 support.
1.01.0.0beta230 April 2009Bugs fixed. Introduces the KCModule.
1.01.0.0beta34 June 2009Bugs fixed. Speed and usability improvements.
1.01.0.0rc13 August 2009Bugs fixed.
1.01.0.018 August 2009First stable
1.01.0.19 January 2010Bugs fixed.
1.01.0.224 April 2010Bugs fixed. Usability improvement.
1.01.0.31 September 2010Bugs fixed. Usability improvements.
1.11.1.010 July 2014New features, support for 4096 byte sectors, Btrfs, GPT, exFAT, NILFS 2, and more. First release by Andrius Štikonas.
1.11.1.115 February 2015Bugs fixed.
1.21.2.015 February 2015New features. Ported to KDE Frameworks 5. Switched license to GPLv3+.
1.21.2.117 February 2015Bug fixed.
2.02.0.015 January 2016Splitting user interface and partitioning library. Bugs fixed.
2.02.0.324 February 2016Bugs fixed.
2.12.1.011 March 2016Minimal support for F2FS.
2.22.2.127 May 2016Support for LUKS.
3.03.0.018 December 2016Support for LVM.
3.23.2.17 October 2017UDF support.
3.33.3.114 December 2017Better LVM and LUKS2 support.
4.04.0.001 May 2019KPMcore backend was ported away from libparted to sfdisk.
Caio Jordão Carvalho ported S.M.A.R.T. code away form unmaintained libatasmart to smartmontools.
Better support for LUKS2.
Detection support for Apple’s APFS filesystem and Microsoft’s Bitlocker.