So you have some empty space on your hard disk and wish to format & use it. But you are not confident enough to do this in the commandline using fdisk. Thats ok we will install Gparted(Gnome Partion Utility) to do this task for us.

1. Open up a terminal(Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
2. Update your apt-get database with sudo apt-get update
3. Enter your password
4. Now once that is done we can install gparted with sudo apt-get install gparted
5. Press Y to confirm your install
6. Once it is done you can either type sudo gparted or just go into Gnome Partition Editor (System > Administration > “Gnome Partition Editor”
7. Now Right click on unallocated and click New.
8. Here you can specifythe size it probably will default to max.
9. If you wish to make this partition readable by both windows and your linux choose FAT 32 where it says filesystem
10. Click Add
11. Now click Apply it should be on the upper right.

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