[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Colin Law]

On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run
> it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in,
> reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the
> internal hard disk completely, it must be using it, in its own way.

You can run off the live CD with no hard disk at all.  As has been
mentioned previously it will use the swap partition if it finds one,
but that can be turned off in gparted.  Then it will not be using the
hard disk at all.  Also it is not a matter of 'unmounting' the hard
disk, it will never be mounted in the first place (apart from swap as
mentioned).  'Mounting' is something that the OS does as it starts up,
so it is up the the OS on the live CD whether it mounts the disk or
not.

Colin