[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.

By contrast, Gparted says:

Partition, File System..Mt Pt...Size.......Used.....Unused.....flags
/dev/sda1, ext3........./.......22.35......4.48......17.87......boot
/dev/sda2, unknown..............22.35...............................
/dev/sda3, linux-swap............3.72...............................
/dev/sda4, extended............184.45...............................
.../dev/sda5...ext3...../home..184.45....127.65......56.81..........

/dev/sda2 has a yellow triangle with exclamation point, and 'Information
about /dev/sda2' says:
"Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:
-The file system is damaged
-The file system is unknown to GParted
-There is no file system available (unformatted)"