install gparted on Ubuntu 8.10

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/9/17 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> Doug wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If you use e.g. gparted it will automatically format the partitions
> according to the selected file system but if you use good old fdisk, it
> will only write the partition table and not format anything. And if you
> overwrite a partition with zeroes, like the OP wanted to do, it is also
> not formatted afterwards. These are just two ways to get unformatted
> partitions and I suppose there are several more ways.
>
>> 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.)

Since Ubuntu is a Gnome distribution, it uses Nautilus, which is not
an exact equivalent to Dolphin, but pretty much, I'd guess.

If you want to see some partition info, you can run the
gnome-system-monitor. It only views mounted partitions, though.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

>
> I have no idea - I'm a Kubuntu user ...
>
>
> Nils
>
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