On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1, > which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being > moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could > certainly be called on while one was moving it, but there are special > procedures to cope with this, namely making a new swap space where you > want it, then somehow setting the machine to switch over from using the > old swap space to the new swap space next time it starts up, thus > avoiding any overlaps. At least, I assume that is the idea. The user > files (My Documents, My Music, etc.) are not updated by anything. The > whole essence of this is that one is not talking about unmounting the > entire internal hard disk; each partition can be separately mounted and > unmounted, hopefully without affecting the others. >
There are lots of files in your home directory and indeed elsewhere that get written to (and read from) whilst you're 'doing nothing'. So I wouldn't assume that the filesystem is safe to be played with just because you don't have any desktop applications open. Still, I personally wouldn't monkey with partitions on a disk that has already mounted ones, especially not a productive system. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
