On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 12:46 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Is it really that hard to open gnome-terminal (or whatever your > > favourite terminal is), do 'su -' and then run gparted from there? > > You can't do anything with /home in that case, because you're logged in > as a regular user, so /home is in use. > That's a good point. Since I've always done repartitioning with Live CD (because I usually modify the / partition as well) I haven't realised this... > > And btw. you've actually not lost the login as root, it is just disabled > > in GDM. You can log-in as root in terminals (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F2) and > > you can even run the desktop environment from there by running startx > > (not that it is a good thing to do either). > > Right, that's the obvious solution. Boot to runlevel 3, log in as root, > run startx. And if you are not familiar with doing this in console and do not want to use Live media, probably even the best one. Although I would still loudly add that running full desktop environment as root is a big security risk... Martin
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