How to use gparted to sort disk manager

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how to type gparted in terminal?

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Tom (tom6) said :
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sudo gparted

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benny (b3ny) said :
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yes done. I load slower there and try up clear page with new question.
sda6 and sda7 was delete
unallocated

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benny (b3ny) said :
#3

I was deleted but when fdisk? should do restart?
benny@b3nY:~$ sudo gparted
[sudo] password for benny:
======================
libparted : 1.7.1
======================
Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognised disk label.

benny@b3nY:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for benny:

Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x16ed16ed

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 5287 42467796 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 5288 9541 34170255 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00d700d7

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6048 48580528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6049 19456 107699760 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6375 19456 105081133+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 6049 6352 2441817 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 6353 6374 176683+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

sda6 and 7 still there

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Benny please don't continue here a already open question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78237
it have no sense here.

This is not an acceptable way to use launchpad it is difficult to follow what you are doing in this way.

Thank you

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Best Tom (tom6) said :
#5

Did you click on the "Apply" button in gparted?

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benny (b3ny) said :
#6

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

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benny (b3ny) said :
#7

ok sorry, done.
nsg go move to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78237
this closed

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Tom (tom6) said :
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After deleting sda7 and sda6 in gparted and pressing "Apply" please right-click in the space and make a new partition filling up that space, make it's "filesystem" = "linux-swap", then click on "Apply" again