Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > No. You have to find a way to unmount the partition you want to > format.
And no way to make such may virtual unmounting - may something like kernels are now updated on the fly? > Make a minimal installation in some space that you can spare > temporarily (ex. swap partion). Make sure that you can access both > the old partition and the external clone. Reformat as needed and > clone back your system. I have thought about this too, but the problem is that I have - on the targeted for formatting drive - single partition, and though I can make out of single - two - through some hard work - finally, I will get my reduced partition formatted as needed (w/ ext4 FS) but that small partition will remain - that I have no idea how to use latter nor I want it at all... I can not boot from the USB - I do see the exact option in it menu and dmidecode tells me the same: Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported LS-120 boot is supported ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Boot-up State: Safe I tried all the options in the menu, connecting IDE CD-ROM w/ bootable Debian through IDE-to-USB adapter. - No any effect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c3820da.887b0e0a.3756.4...@mx.google.com
