Hey folks!
I have been using Ubuntu for the past week without any major problems than not figuring out how to manually install software and other small problems.
However last night I deleted a folder "World of Warcraft" it filled 10gb, pressed delete and it vanished like I expected. Though no extra space freed up, and it wasn't moved to trash.
So, today I bit the bullock and formatted the partition since I wanted ext3 instead of ntfs.
After some start-up troubled I finally got Gparted installed.
So here comes the problem. I now have around 30gb of unallocated space, but Gparted gives me an error message when I try to format it in to ext3.
This is the error message Gparted produces
Code:
GParted 0.3.3
Libparted 1.7.1
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext3, 26.37 GiB) on /dev/sda 00:00 ( ERROR )
create empty partition 00:00 ( SUCCES )
path: /dev/sda2
start: 17575110
end: 72870839
size: 55295730 (26.37 GiB)
set partitiontype on /dev/sda2 00:00 ( SUCCES )
new partitiontype: ext3
create new ext3 filesystem 00:00 ( ERROR )
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
Could not stat /dev/sda2 --- No such file or directory
The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
libparted messages ( INFO )
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). This means Linux won't know anything about the modifications you made until you reboot. You should reboot your computer before doing anything with /dev/sda.
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). This means Linux won't know anything about the modifications you made until you reboot. You should reboot your computer before doing anything with /dev/sda.
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Create Primary Partition #2 (linux-swap, 2.51 GiB) on /dev/sda
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After the dialoguebox is closed it says it can't re-read from the disk and the unallocated space is now access limited.
How large should the swap partition be on a system like this? Just for regular "heavy" desktop use.
Kind regards, Lasse
Ps. tried making a user on ubuntuforums as it seemed the closest as I am using ubuntu. But apparently the usernames i chosen wasn't acceptable, anyone knows what is up with that?