On Fri 09 Feb 2018 at 14:11:27 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2018 13:56:35 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 09 Feb 2018 at 12:34:05 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 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 > > > > ↑ I'll write "correct" next time. You'd think I, of all > > people, could spell that word. > > > > > > 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? > > > > Circumvent what by what? Are those files there or not? I don't know > > what you mean by "fixing" until you say whether they're there and > > whether they're desired. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Well, isn't that why things get automounted, then? ISTR people doing > > similar battles when their disc burners tried to automount blank > > discs. You had to turn it off somewhere. > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > somewhere. That was the implied question.
Well, as I explained, I don't use a DE so I wouldn't have a clue. There presumably are people here who use TDE. I see it mentioned a lot. No, I was more interested in your nobbling of sdd in rules.d and whether that had the consequence of preventing the creation of the appropriate symlinks under /dev/disk/. It seemed somewhat brutal; I thought there might be side effects. Cheers, David.