[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Christopher Swift]

Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
> <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
> > <matt at daubers.co.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > >> 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. Matt Daubney
> 
> > > Thank you Matt for telling me that you have actually seen drives 
> > > messed up in this way. I still wonder why it should be so incredibly
> > > dangerous but you have convinced me that it is. Rowan
> 
> > The why is because other programs could be trying to update bits of
> > the disc as gparted tries to move it. It's a bit like trying to change
> > the wheel on a car that doesn't have the handbrake on - it *might* not
> > move... Cofion/Regards, Neil.
> 
> What, by the way, does 'Cofion' mean?
> 
> 
Rather off topic but "cofion" is Welsh directly translated as "memories"
but in this instance it can and does mean "regards".

All the best,
Chris.