install gparted on Ubuntu 8.10

[lazer100]

On 17-Sep-12 04:41:11 Doug wrote:
>On 09/16/2012 02:50 PM, lazer100 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am unable to install gparted on Ubuntu 8.10,
>>
>/snip/
>> how do I install this?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>>
>>
>You'll be better off downloading a live version of GParted or Partition 
>Magic and burning to
>a CD.  You can't mess with the partitions on a disk on which you are 
>running an OS, so
>if you burn a CD, you can do partitioning on any hard drive on the 
>system from there.

>--doug

I want to dabble with an external USB drive, I want to zero the drive using
dd and /dev/zero,

I need gparted to determine the device name of the drive, I'm in fact only
going to use gparted in a read only way,

is there any other way to determine the device name of the drive,
something like /dev/sdb 

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