On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: > <snip> > > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. > > This is very true. > > > The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to > > date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea, if > > purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date system. > > > <snip> > > This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with > partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted. > > Having been building storage systems for the past 8 months, I've dealt > with things in terrible states, one of the causes being people believing > that repartitioning with a volume mounted is a good idea. > > Save yourself some grief, for the sake of downloading and creating a > live CD, you'll probably save yourself having to reinstall the whole > system. > > When I do this on customers machines the process is > 1. Boot Live CD (or in my case USB as it's a touch quicker) > 2. Make backup of entire drive (overnight usually due to this being on > xxTB systems) onto some external storage > 3. Use gparted to sort out partition > 4. Check everything is fine, system boots, data is intact > 5. Return system to customer > 6. After a couple of weeks of no problems, remove the image. > > This would obviously need to be modified for your needs. > > _DO_ backup your important data. > _DO NOT_ repartition a mounted device
Never caused any problems for me. In fact some filesystems need to mounted in order to resize them (xfs for one). Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
