GParted 0.26.0 Launches with Read-Only Support for LUKS Encrypted Filesystems

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GParted developer and maintainer Curtis Gedak proudly announced the release of the GParted 0.26.0 open-source partition editor utility that’s widely used in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems.

GParted 0.26.0 launches on April 26, 2016, with several exciting new features, such as read-only support for LUKS encrypted filesystems, progress bars for the NTFS, XFS, EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4 file system copy methods, along with support for using a single progress bar for entire internal copy operation, and implementation of the partition object polymorphism.

“This release adds read-only support for LUKS encrypted file systems. GParted identifies these with the addition of ‘[Encrypted]’ and can show the file system within an open LUKS encrypted mapping,” said Curtis Gedak. “However this release can not open or close the LUKS encryption and can not modify the encrypted file system w… (read more)

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