Re: resize partitions using parted

[Sven Hartrumpf]

>> Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok?

>Used it. Loved it. Broke it :-}. Read the docs and only use it as it 
>says. Heed the warnings about meddling with the root partition.

Did you run into this problem when you ran parted from a floppy disk
after booting from a rescue disk?

Or did you mean by "only use it as it says"
that you missed exactly this passage in parted.texi (section 1.6)
and ran parted from the hard disk itself.

Greetings


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automatic shutdown on heat problem

[Sven Hartrumpf]

What is the best way to shutdown (power off) automatically a Linux box when
the temperature (on motherboard) rises to a critical value due to fan
(or AC, ...) failure?

(I am sure more people have lost hardware in such situations.)

Greetings
Sven


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Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file.

[Sven Hartrumpf]

I have installed packages using aptitude when my / partition filled up
by some /etc ... files (from CUPS packages).
Installation failed therefore.
Now, everytime I call aptitude I get:
"Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only
mode"
and therefore can not de/select anything in aptitude.
I have found some lock files for apt and deleted them. But this did not
solve the problem.
Any ideas?


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