Carlos E. R. wrote:
The machine is doing more important things with most of its resources and that will take a week or so, so a reboot is not an option for now. That's unfortunate.
Indeed. As it happened, something caused a break in what it was doing :( But that meant I was able to reboot the machine and it all looks good now :)
What is happening is that the kernel "thinks" it knows the partitioning of that disk, and ignores that it changed later. Tools that attempt to repartition it will all fail.
Hmm, sounds like a bug to me. Either the tool or the kernel ought to be in a position to decide that the kernel needs to rebuild its table, which is presumably a safe (idempotent) operation or at least should be. Oh well.
Another option I have is to remove the disk (it's SATA in a hot swap cage).
You should have said that before! Yes, unplug it. Wait a minute or two, then plug it back in, same bay. You can watch the kernel log and see how the kernel recognizes its removal, and later the insertion.
I has to work.
OK thanks, I'll bear that in mind if there's a next time :) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org