On Friday 09 February 2018 11:50:46 David Wright wrote: > 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? > It must be doing an end run by that means. Can that be fixed too?
> 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. > This machine is running TDE as its x-gui, r14.0.5 it says. > Cheers, > David. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>