Yeah, I figured it was probably possible to view pending operations before starting. I just wish it had stuck it in my face and asked me to confirm. It was just a really unfortunate set of circumstances for attempting a partition move for the first time.
I'm currently at "84.70 GiB of 424.94 GiB copied (03:57:49 remaining)". It seems a move is two parts, a read (which took over 2 hours 45 minutes) and a copy (which takes longer). The rough part is, this is the *second* time it's doing this for this partition: Move /dev/sda1 to the right and shrink it from 463.85 GiB to 425.00 GiB * Grow /dev/sda2 from 1.91 GiB to 10.00 GiB Move /dev/sda1 to the right * Grow /dev/sda2 from 10.00 GiB to 10.00 GiB Create Primary Partition #1 on /dev/sda Grow /dev/sda1 from 425.00 GiB to 425.76 GiB It makes sense to me that automatically optomizing that would not be easy. In hind sight, I'd reset all my changes, delete /dev/sda2, move and resize /dev/sda1 in one step, recreate /dev/sda2, then create the new partition. I had a 2gb swap partition at the beginning of a half terrabyte drive, I'm expanding it to 2gb. It really wasn't worth this much time given the possibility to just add another 8gb partition. Hell, I would have preferred leaving it at 2gb swap partition + 8gb swap file over waiting this long. I also realize an accurate time estimate would be hard, but I didn't need an accurate estimate. You could have given me a rough average estimate, and I bet been within, say, 25% of truth, and I would have said "Whoa! Not right!" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958246 Title: allow cancellation of steps that haven't started yet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gparted/+bug/958246/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
