Updating
Last month I updated the Numbat, explored snaps, and updated the snaps.
Today I updated the debs and snaps.
Boot with GParted Live USB
- Reboot computer with flash drive in USB
Needed ESC to get to Aptio UEFI BIOS
then manually choose boot from flash drive
Should I remove stuff from the Boot Override? - Press enter when Live boot screen is displayed
GParted Live [Default Settings] - Press the enter key to use standard US keymap
- Press the enter key to use the US English Language
- Press the enter key to start up default graphical environment (mode 0)
Should see GUI
In GUI:
To select a device go to GParted | Devices menu option and select a device
or from drop-down menu at upper left
Look at: text list details, device details, model, partition table, sector size
Partition | Information
Padlock icon: mounted
Exclamation triangle: Possible file system problem
GBs and GiBs
Size of disk device will always be a lower number than that reported by disk manufacturer
160 GB = 149 GiB
My calculation: GiB is .93125 of GB
GParted uses IEC binary prefixes
1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes
Disk manufacturers use SI decimal prefixes
1 MB = 1,000,000
About this SSD
Partition table gpt
Sector size 512
/dev/sda1 fat32 1.05 GiB – boot, esp
/dev/sda2 ext4 237.42 GiB – this is approximately 254.95 GB
unallocated 1.34 MiB