[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Daniel Drummond]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
> drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
> etc., are greyed out. What do I need to do gain access to them? Thanks,
> Rowan.
> 
> 

This is because these volumes are mounted, to modify them you need to
unmount them.  You can't unmount the root partition while the OS is
running, so to modify that the easiest way is to use a live cd/usb and
do it from that.

Hope that answers your question

Dan