[GTALUG] Raid 10 repair question

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On 19/02/15 06:26 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
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>> Is there a way to partition the drive in a running system?
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>> 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.
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> On newer systems, even the drive under the running OS can be
> updated without a reboot.
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> 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

I don't use Debian or gparted, so I can't provide advice.

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