[GTALUG] Raid 10 repair question

[o1bigtenor]

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> > 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.
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> 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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