Hi, When I fire up YaST -> System -> Partitioner, there is a warning that pops up, essentially saying, among other things,
NEVER (my emphasis) partition disks that may in any way be in use (mounted, swap, etc) unless you know exactly what you are doing. Let's pretend for a moment that this applies to me and I click Yes to continue. I am curious about the "never" part of this. In my situation, when I installed 10.2 I created primary swap and root partitions in sdc1 and sdc2. I created an extended partion (sdc3) and put /home in a logical partition (sdc5). I intentionally left unallocated space at the initial install. I would now like to allocate this additional space (sdc6) and mount it at /local. Is it safe to do this while the disk is mounted? I would like to know because I have done this already (several times) :-) and it did not seem to cause any problems - except the last time. The repartitioning worked, but /local was hosed (interpreted as a read-only file system and no changes could be made - even as root). I checked the disk and it turned out that sdc was failing SMART tests, and I have replaced it. I have in the past tested the disks occassionally (and will now do so more regularly) and I do not recall this disk ever having failed the smart tests before this (but I am not sure about this). I'm guessing that there was a bad area on the disk, which wasn't accessed as it was in the unallocated space. Allocating the space led to these problems surfacing. I do not think that this was related to repartitioning the mounted disk, but I would like some confirmation if possible. As I said, I've done this on other disks previously and have not noticed any problems. Was I just lucky those other times (and doing something I shouldn't be doing) or was I unlucky this time. Any information will be appreciated. (I am getting somewhat paranoid about this because this is the 4th hard drive I have had die on me in roughly the last 18 months. I don't know anyone else in that time who has had even one go bad.) -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
