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On the <emphasis role="strong">System</emphasis> menu, point to <emphasis role="strong">Administration</emphasis> and then click <emphasis role="strong">Partition Editor</emphasis>. The <emphasis role="strong">GParted</emphasis> window opens.

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GParted is also available from the Live CD.

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GParted Window

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In the top-right corner of the <emphasis role="strong">GParted</emphasis> window is the drive drop-down box. You can use this box to select the hard drive that you need to partition by specifying the logical name you noted earlier. The Gparted window refreshes and shows you a representation of the selected drive.

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If the existing partitions on the drive have not yet been used, a white bar would run across the window. However, if the existing partitions contain some data, the data will be represented by a pale yellow area.

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Instructor Notes:

103.

Explain how to read the specifications of the current partitions and file systems.

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You can either resize an existing partition or create a new partition in the unallocated space of the hard drive. Before resizing an existing partition, you must make sure that you unmount it by right-clicking the partition and then selecting <emphasis role="strong">Unmount</emphasis>. Remember that you cannot resize a partition to be smaller than the yellow area, which represents the data on the partition.

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To create a new partition in the unallocated drive space, right-click the area and select <emphasis role="strong">New</emphasis> on the short-cut menu. The <emphasis role="strong">Create new Partition</emphasis> dialogue box appears.

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The <emphasis role="strong">Create new Partition</emphasis> dialogue box enables you to select specifications for the new partition. Apart from defining the size of the new partition, you can also select the partition type, whether primary or logical, for the new partition. In addition, you can even define the file system to be used on the new partition. By default, Ubuntu uses the ext3 partitions. However, if you want the new drive to be readable by both Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu without installing anything extra, you can format it as Fat 32.