Linux question

[Plecostomus]

I have Gutsy installed on my laptop currently, and I need to install a copy of Dapper to run EMC2 (Extended Machine Controller 2) in a separate partition.

However when I run gparted I get a message that my hard-drive (filesystem) is READ ONLY and cannot be edited.

When I set this laptop up I used Ext3 format with the understanding that I could alter the partition later for situations like this.

Now, how do I go about changing the permission of my filesystem so I can alter the partition?

I got absolutely no help from the Ubuntu user forum on this so I'm branching out.

 

[Deleted 2]

Are you running gparted from your Gutsy installation?

It is possible to do resize the partition on which a running system resides, but you need to use LVM for that (the Logical Volume Manager) which is a bit more tricky to understand, so I don't think Ubuntu uses it in its default install.

It should be possible to resize your existing hard disk partitions from a Ubuntu install cd. If that doesn't work, there's probably something else at work. Try to switch to a console from the Ubuntu installer (I believe it's Alt-F2 or something) and type 'mount' on the prompt. Come back to us with the output of that command.