snip > > > > > > Is there a way to partition the drive in a running system? > > > > The only way that I know of is to reboot onto a rescue disk and > > use gparted there to partition the drive. > > > snip
> > You can use parted on running systems just fine. On older systems, the > drive with the OS will not update the partition table until you > reboot, but repartitioning other drives should be updated fine. Parted > will warn you if a reboot is needed. > > On newer systems, even the drive under the running OS can be updated > without a reboot. > I installed gparted using CLI. I can find a preferences file for gparted (that won't open) but I cannot run the program. I tried using a number of techniques to start gparted but so far nothing is working. I am not worried about doing a reboot to a rescue disk and then doing the work and then rebooting back into Debian testing but am also trying to use this as a learning opportunity (hopefully without that being learning how to redo the system as a whole which I have had to do at least twice since the original install). Thanks for your advice! Dee
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