SAVING DETAILS FOR BUGREPORT
(and doing screenshots)

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When clicking on "Save Details", you are asked where to save the file :

details

Here are several ways to get the file out of the environment. We will discuss the more common ways, copy to floppy, usbstick and harddisk. 

First you need to open a terminal; DON'T CLOSE the GParted window!

launch aterm

Copying to floppy disk
Insert your floppy, and just type the following :

root@GParted:~# mkdir /tmp/floppy     
root@GParted:~# mount /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
root@GParted:~# cp gparted_details.htm /tmp/floppy
root@GParted:~# umount /tmp/floppy
root@GParted:~#
### If there is an error, or if there is no /dev/fd0, just do the following :
root@GParted:~# modprobe floppy
### And then execute the already described steps

 

Copying to usbstick
Plug your usbstick in, and just type the following :

root@GParted:~# fdisk -l | grep sd

Disk /dev/sda: 131 MB, 131072000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          15      120456    b  W95 FAT32

root@GParted:~#
It may return more than one sd* device, if you have sata or scsi drives ; but when you look at the size, you can surely find the right device for your usbstick. Here it is /dev/sda, and the partition on which we will copy the file, is sda1.
So just do the following :
root@GParted:~# mkdir /tmp/usb          
root@GParted:~# mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/usb/
root@GParted:~# cp gparted_details.htm /tmp/usb/
root@GParted:~# umount /tmp/usb
root@GParted:~#
Now, you can exit from the terminal with a ctrl-d, and exit from GParted and reboot your machine.

Copying to hard drive parition
It is exactly the same as for an usbstick, but you can chose the partition in the GParted window! Imagine we decide to mount /dev/hda3 (which is the "/" partition) and to copy the gparted_details.htm to it:
root@GParted:~# mkdir /tmp/hda
root@GParted:~# mount /dev/hda3 /tmp/hda/
root@GParted:~# cp gparted_details.htm /tmp/hda3/home/<your-path>/Desktop/
root@GParted:~# umount /tmp/hda/
root@GParted:~#

You may prefer to write to ntfs partition! Imagine we have an NTFS partition hda1 :
root@GParted:~# mkdir /tmp/ntfs
root@GParted:~# ntfs-3g  /dev/hda1 /tmp/ntfs
root@GParted:~# cp gparted_details.htm /tmp/hda1/home/<your-path>/Desktop/
root@GParted:~# umount /tmp/ntfs
root@GParted:~#

Everything is done, and you can close the terminal (ctrl d) and reboot your machine!


Doing screenshots
If you need or want to make a screenshot of the GParted window, just open a terminal and run the next command:
root@GParted:~# xwd > gparted.dmp
Then, switch to the GParted window using the alt+tab keys, and click on the GParted window. It will creat a gparted.dmp file in /root. And you may copy it to any drive executing the already described steps. DMP files can be opened with gimp or any imageviewer.