Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-14 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 07:03 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > Firstly, if at all possible, you're better off doing it with disks > unmounted, booting from a gparted live CD. > > Secondly, if that's not practical, that message is common when using, say > fdisk. Sometimes, running partprobe afterwar

Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-14 Thread Keith Keller
On 2016-05-14, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Secondly, if that's not practical, that message is common when using, say > fdisk. Sometimes, running partprobe afterwards will reflect the new > partition scheme, other times, you may just have to reboot. I always assumed that it was impossible to have the

Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 05:19:07AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > > On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 23:17 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > Is the disk or 1 of its partitions mounted ? If so, can it be > > unmounted Firstly, if at all possible, you're better off doing it with disks unmounte

Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-13 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 23:17 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > Is the disk or 1 of its partitions mounted ? If so, can it be > unmounted Hi William, its the only HDD on that machine. All the partitions are mounted. The error message refers to the HDD, not to any of the mounted partitions.

Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 05/13/16 23:08, Always Learning wrote: On C6 (latest) I wanted to add an extra partition, number 14, to a 1TB GPT disk. It failed repeatedly. The error message is:- ~~~ GParted 0.19.1 Libparted 2.1 Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 33.00 MiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:01 ( ERROR ) calibrate

[CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

2016-05-13 Thread Always Learning
On C6 (latest) I wanted to add an extra partition, number 14, to a 1TB GPT disk. It failed repeatedly. The error message is:- ~~~ GParted 0.19.1 Libparted 2.1 Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 33.00 MiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:01 ( ERROR ) calibrate New Partition #1 00:00:00( SUCCESS