GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor. Among other features it supports creating, resizing, moving and copying of partitions.

Features: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

New Features:
* added support for commandline arguments (e.g. gparted /dev/hda)
* added submenu 'Devices' which allows one to select devices from the menu
* implemented export of operationdetails to external file. This can be very usefull for debugging.
* it's now possible to (re)activate swap from within gparted
* The mountpoint(s) of mounted partitions are now visible in the treeview.