EaseUS Partition Master vs GParted

EaseUS Partition Master manages drives through operations including creating, deleting, resizing, moving and merging partitions. The Free edition is available for home users, but has limited features and does not support Windows Server. The Professional edition adds partition cloning, operating-system migration to an SSD or HDD, one-click AI smart space adjustment, disk conversions and WinPE boot-media creation. Its conversions include MBR to GPT and the reverse, NTFS to FAT32, and dynamic disks to basic disks. Listed filesystem support includes FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4, with both partition-table types supported. A Mac version supports Intel, M1, M2 and M3 Macs and can read and write NTFS disks and unlock BitLocker-encrypted NTFS/FAT disks. The product is listed for macOS and Windows, and has a free plan and free trial. Listed one-time plans are Professional at $59.95, paid once, Server at $259, paid once, Unlimited at $499, paid once, and Technician at $699, paid once; the plans include free lifetime upgrades.

GParted is a free graphical editor for managing disk partitions. It can create, delete, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, as well as assign a new UUID. It can also create partition tables such as msdos and gpt. Supported storage includes hard drives, USB flash devices, SSDs, NVMe, and RAID devices. The project lists filesystems including bcachefs, btrfs, exFAT, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, NTFS, and XFS, although available actions vary by filesystem. GParted Live provides a bootable GNU/Linux environment that can run from CD, USB, a PXE server, or a hard disk. Current Live releases are 64-bit amd64 images and work with UEFI Secure Boot; native installation requires Linux. At least 1 GB of RAM is needed to use all application features. The project warns that partition editing can cause data loss and recommends backing up first. It also provides instructions for checking downloads with a signed checksum list and GPG.