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... -- 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>