Smashed Partiton
Only a few minutes ago, I was using gparted to make my data "safer" in it's own partition via: Psychocats How-to on his web page.
Things weren't going well, but I got some help online via LiveCd.
With help, eventually gparted showed a screen with an orange colored bar, moving back and forth and some words to the effect that /dev/sda1 was being moved to the left and shrunk.
Ten minutes or more went by and as there is NO PROGRESS BAR, or something to indicate the percentage of completion or in some way to give the end user an idea of what is happening.So, I canceled the operation, thinking something was stuck. I posted a question in the thread about how long it would take and was told between 2 hours and 6 to 7 hours.
I think it would have been more prudent for GParted to make an assessment of how much time that operation was going to take and report it to the end user.
In all events, the CANCEL button should be de-activated once a process like partitioning starts, so that no damage is done. I've lost my OS, maybe my data, too.
AMD FX-6300, 8gig ddr3, MSI 970 Gaming, 256G WD blue SSD, GeForce GT710, HP LJ Pro M277-fdw
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