On Fri 09 Feb 2018 at 04:20:51 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2018 04:11:42 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > That is not the problem, something is automounting the partition as > > > soon as gparted unmounts the SOB, so by the time you start the > > > resize, its mounted again and gparted is locked out. > > > > If explicit unmounting does not help, and if manual execution of the > > gparted helper programs shows the same problems, then you will have > > to do it without resizing. I.e. the oldfashioned way of making a new > > partition with a new filesystem into which you copy the files of the > > old filesystem. > > > > > > Have a nice day :) > > > > Thomas > > I killed udev for /dev/sdd, gparted works now. But I really need a > quicker way than editing a udev rule. I wonder if I could make udev > aware that gparted was running. That would be ideal. So would > meaningfull gparted error reporting without having to wade thru a > kilobyte of (spit) html. I'm going back to bed...
Would I be write in thinking that killing sdd just there prevents the appearance of /dev/disk/by-{this,that and the other} appearing also? Do you run with a DE? What would happen if you tried all this in a VC before starting X? My experience of wheezy, jessie (which you're running?) and stretch is that nothing has ever automounted itself unless I boot from a live stick. But I only run fvwm. Cheers, David.