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Desktop size (no. bytes) to small

Asked by Rodney

When I try to put a picture (a .jpg) on the desk top I get the message that size is to small. I have a screen shot but do not know how to get it into this question. It says "there is not enough space on the destination. Try to remove files to make space. there is 0 bytes available, but 690.8KB is required." It appears that the partition that the desktop lies in is to small. I can not figure out how to change the size of partitions. The instructions I find here on the web says to [color=red] press System.Administration>gome Partition Editor. [/color] but when I go to System>Administrion there is no partition editor. How do I enlarge the partition that the desktop resides in and what partition is it in? I think that this error of mine in not having a large enough space allocated here is also causing other problems.

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Jeff Rasmussen (jeffrasmussen) said : 		#1

The program you need installed is gparted and it is installed on the LiveCD. You could install the program using System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager but because your computer is booted onto that hard drive, you will not be able to change the partition size.

The best answer is to use the Ubuntu LiveCD and run System > Administration > Partition Editor. That way you will have the ability to change the partition size for all drives loaded on your machine.

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#2

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Your question #55269 on Ubuntu changed:
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Jeff Rasmussen proposed the following answer:
The program you need installed is gparted and it is installed on the
LiveCD. You could install the program using System > Administration >
Synaptic Package Manager but because your computer is booted onto that
hard drive, you will not be able to change the partition size.

The best answer is to use the Ubuntu LiveCD and run System >
Administration > Partition Editor. That way you will have the ability
to change the partition size for all drives loaded on your machine.

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[color=green] I am still having trouble here, my live CD does not have
Partition Editor on it, at least not that I can find.[/color]
I have tried to install with all three choices on the live CD, the first
using the whole disk results in the Error 18, same for the second Guided
using full disk, even when I cut the partition size down to less than 120GB.
When I use the manual set up, after I set up four partitions with their
mounts, it will not let me add any more partitions, marks the rest of the
disk as "unuseable". If I click on "continue" it says I have not set up any
swap area, yet, at no point in the program does it have the swap area
identified, asked for, or explain how to set it up. If I can download
gparted I'll see if I can get that working but I'm not sure I can do that
and burn a CD. Thanks for your effort to date and I'll continue to try
different things.

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#3

I've taken actions that have eliminated my problems although I may have created others. I partitioned the disk with a program that came with an old Maxtor hard drive making partitions smaller than 120GB and then reinstalled Hardy on one of the partitions. It has installed okay and all seems to be working. Now, I do not think I can use rest of the disk without doing some more work with a disk partitioning/formating program which is presently beyound my knowledge. However, I now have Ubuntu up and running successfully with E-mail, web browsing, printing etc. Thanks again to all of you who have been so helpful, what a nice bunch of people. Rodney