Ubuntu 7.10's GParted 0.3.3: How to get it more accurate ?

[Karl Larsen]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 23:10 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
>   
>> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:00 -0800, Richard Rudnick wrote:
>>>       
>>>> gparted (source: gparted): GNOME partition editor. In component main,
>>>> is optional. Version 0.3.5-1ubuntu2 (hardy), package size 340 kB,
>>>> installed size 2100 kB
>>>>         
>>> Unfortunately I am unable to follow resp getting it ;-(
>>>
>>> My Synaptic still shows GParted with version 0.3.3-2 only !
>>>       
>> That's right - you are using Gutsy, not Hardy. This version isn't 
>> available for Gutsy. Therefore you could do one of these:
>>
>> - compile the new version from the source code,
>>     
>
> As a newbie I am unable to and would not risk to try and spoil my
> running system ;-)
>  
>   
>> - wait for Hardy until it is ready in April
>>     
>
> better, will have to ! :-D
>
>   
>> - use the alpha version of Hardy
>>     
>
> sorry, no alpha / beta experiments with my newbie knowledge and the
> productive system ;-))
>
> Thank you Nils !
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>   
    To you all, I have been making partitions on my hard drives with 
fdisk for over 8 years. It works fine. Read man fdisk. And experiment 
with it. You can do what you want first and see if it looks right. Then 
if it looks right quit with a w and your done.

Karl


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