About the disk utility

Question

I've been trying to make partitions in my disk using the disk utility provided by Gnome. I've wasted the whole day yesterday searching this forum, other forums, other websites about HOW to use this utility in partitioning the HDD, but NOTHING... I came out with NOTHING. All I found was just material about its uses, how to open it and what it does. But nothing explains HOW to do the partitions. I don't want to improvise and end up breaking my machine. Can someone please tell me or even direct me to how I can use this utility to make a partition in my HDD? My HDD is 1 TB and it's in one single partition. My OS is 17.10.

Answer 1

I found the answer here: https://itsfoss.com/switch-xorg-wayland/

Simply:

Use the command below

xhost +si:localuser:root

and then run the troublesome program with sudo like this:

sudo -H gparted

I tried it and it worked.