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I installed gparted to use for partitioning my hard drive so ubuntu is my only os but when I tried to run gparted, it told me that i have to be root but i am root as far as i know how do i know for sure i haven't even signed on as guest because i am still setting stuff up most other apps ask for confirmation i type in my password and on i go but gparted doesn't have that prompt how do i become root

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    Your subject line has nothing to do with your question.
    – psusi
    Dec 31, 2012 at 1:38

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Press Alt+F2 and type gksudo gparted then it will ask for your password and then it should run as root .

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If you run gparted in the terminal, you will receive this error message:

Root privileges are required for running gparted.

I'm guessing that is what you are doing, though it is not quite clear from your question.

Either run gparted-pkexec or use the Gparted icon from the Dash, which runs the same command.

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In newer versions of Ubuntu, the command is:

gparted-pkexec

There's a bug that can happen in newer versions of Ubuntu where the gparted packages seem installed, but aren't. To fix that, you need to remove gparted and reinstall.

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You should use pkexec gparted. The desktop and/or launcher shortcuts already do this.

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    The shortcuts actually use gparted-pkexec, which is a shell script that then calls pkexec gparted.
    – muru
    Oct 15, 2014 at 17:13
  • I know but it falls into "implementation detail".
    – Erkin Alp Güney
    Oct 21, 2014 at 19:46

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