install gparted on Ubuntu 8.10

[Doug]

On 09/17/2012 02:25 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>> I don't know what GUI program Ubuntu uses to show all the partitions,
>> drives,
>> directories, partitions, and so on, like Dolphin does in many
>> distros.  What Dolphin does, when you snap on the partitions it
>> finds, is it mounts them.
> Dolphin is a KDE program and therefore most Ubuntu users don't have it
> installed. And even Dolphin can only mount the partitions if they are
> formatted ...
>
>
> Nils
>
Interesting, Nils. I didn't know that the partitions had to be formatted.
Normally, any partition I make I will also format, so I guess I had
never run into that.  What does Ubuntu use in place of Dolphin?
(It's been quite a while since I had an Ubuntu distro on one of my
machines.)

Someone (perhaps yourself) suggested to use fdisk -l.  that works
nicely, but *you must have root privileges* --su or sudo.  I don't
remember the post mentioning that.

Thanx for contributing!

--doug


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