How to partition hard drive on Ubuntu

Gparted is a good utility in partitioning hard drive on most Linux distros. This is akin to Disk Management of Windows. And you can format your hard drive in any file system you wanted to. To install it via terminal, use apt-get or aptitude. The syntax are "sudo apt-get install gparted" or "sudo aptitude install gparted". Installation would take a couple of minutes.

To run gparted just type "sudo gparted" and press Enter.