GParted

How to start gparted from Live-CD

Asked by Tobias

I want to increase my Ubuntu partition. How can I start gparted from the Live-CD 12.04? When starting from Live-CD, the Software-Center indicates that gparted is installed. However there seems to be no way to start gparted or even a terminal window. The Dash board does not give any results, neither for "gparted" nor for "terminal". strg+alt+F1 does not work because gparted works in graphical mode. Do I have a Dash Crash?

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Miha Gašperšič (miha.gaspersic) said : 		#1

Hi Tobias,

you should have to run Gparted from your terminal. But you must run it as root user so type like: sudo gparted and it should start. If not you can install gparted live cd which will allow you to edit your disk from bootable cd. You can found images here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Burn it on cd and manage your disk size.

If that helps you solve your question, please mark thread as solved.

Regards,
Miha

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codemaniac (arijit.dutta) said : 		#2

open up a terminal Alt+Ctrl+t .
sudo gparted

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Tobias (tobias-brett-78) said : 		#3

Hello Arijit,

Thank your for the commands

   open up a terminal Alt+Ctrl+t .
   sudo gparted

Unfortunately, gparted crashes from CD during program sartup. Now I will try the gparted-CD suggested by Miha.

Regards

Tobias

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