[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Rowan Berkeley]

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. 
> > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could
> > bring into use, merging it with the volume that is configured for 
> > user files (now about two-thirds full), as opposed to merging it 
> > with the volume configured for operating system use, might be 
> > difficult.
> We can take a look at that. Can you paste the output of the following
> command:-
> sudo fdisk -l
> Where that's a lower case L at the end. This will simply list out the
> partitions on your system. Cheers, Al.

Al, I can't paste from the terminal, but I have copied what it says,
adding dots to make sure the tabulation stays straight:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd968820c

Device.....Boot...Start...End....Blocks......Id..System
/dev/sda1....*.......1....2918....23438803+..83..Linux
/dev/sda2.........2919....5836....23438835...83..Linux
/dev/sda3.........5837....6322.....3903795...82..Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4.........6323...30401...193414567+...5..Extended
/dev/sda5.........6323...30401...193414536...83..Linux 

best,
R