System configuration

Bill Davidson harley7 at cogeco.ca
Mon Dec 4 01:28:33 UTC 2006


KepalaLinux wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote:
>> KepalaLinux wrote:
>>   
>>> I am studying how to look at my hard drive, the partitions, and the
>>> partition sizes. Can anyone tell me is this a GUI interface? I have GNU
>>> Parted installed but am not real familiar with it. I am just learning
>>> and simply want to see how my system is configured.
>>>     
>> gparted is the package you want.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>   
> forgive my ignorance but GNU Parted is not on any of my menus and as a
> new user, I don't know how to get the program running. Does anyone know?

Sorry, it's not installed by default. Either install it through synaptic 
or run this command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install gparted

HTH,
Bill




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