install gparted on Ubuntu 8.10
lazer100
lazer100 at talktalk.net
Sun Sep 16 19:53:00 UTC 2012
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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