Problems using GParted partioning

[Ericxx]

Hi all,
I wanna partition my hard disk under Ubuntu 7.10 with GParted. I have downloaded and installed the software, but all the operations are in the gray color. I searched somehow, one way is to burn the live cd of gparted. Is it a must that i can only partition my hard disk using the livecd instead of the installed software on my machine? thx.

[Yuki_Nagato]

In short, you CANNOT partition a hard drive correctly if you are using it at the moment. You will need to burn the live image of GParted to a CD and then boot to that CD (instead of the hard drive) in order for it to work correctly.

[DerHesse]

yuki is right, but you can umount those drives which do not contain your os or home folder. This can be done by right-clicking.

[Pumalite]

That is if you have more than one drive; otherwise, use Gparted Live CD:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843