Disk utils on Live CD

[Jim Byrnes]

What disk utilities are available on the Live CD?

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 (full version not remix) on an EeePC.  1 GB 
memory and a 64 GB Crucial SSD hard-drive. All was well until it went 
out on the web for updates.  Sometime during the update the system hung. 
  Waited about 20 minutes then rebooted.  When it came back up there was 
a black screen the message about a grub read error.

 From then on the install would stop while trying to partition and 
format the disk. Rebooting the Live CD and using gpartd would not format 
it either.  I tried deleting the partitions and recreating them seemed 
to help.  It at least seemed like it worked.  It popped up a dialog with 
a successful completion message.  When I closed it the status bar at the 
bottom acted like it was scanning again and when it stopped the 
filesystem reverted to undefined.

Thanks,  Jim