GNOME Parttion Editor

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

I last night installed Ubuntu 8.04 on this computer.

I had a partition about 33GB, that I could not use with Debian, so I 
thought that I might as well instal Ubuntu 8.04 into it.

When it came to the partitioning part of the installation, I selected 
the Manual (rather than the Guided or the Automatic) option, and went 
through the process of setting up a "/" partition of 10GB, with the 
intention of using the remaining 23GB as a new, extra, partition for 
data.

However, what I did in the partitioning part of the installation proces, 
did not take effect, and now I have a 33GB partition for Ubuntu, for the 
operating system.

Of that partition, Ubuntu shows as occupying 3.3GB, or, about 10%.

So, in later adding packages I found this package that is GNOME 
Partition Editor.

"Right", I thought - "I can install that, and resize the partition, and 
create a new partition, so that I can have only 10GB allocated for the 
Ubuntu OS partition and a new, extra, partition of about 23GB, like I 
intended".

However, all of the actions that seem to be supposed to be available for 
doing that, are greyed out, in the menu's in GNOME Partition Editor.

Is the GNOME Partition Editor capable of resizing and editing 
partitions?

Or, is it just disabled from doing anything with that partition, due to 
the partition being a "/" partition?

Do I need to uninstall Ubuntu, and use fdisk to repartition that 
partition, into the two partitions that I want, or is a partition ditor 
available for Ubuntu, that can do that for me?

Thank you in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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