Re: [trinity-users] Re: "Start Job" - switching to svsvinit-devuan - partitioning

On Saturday 17 March 2018 19:20:29 dep wrote: gparted I know. Problem is, I cannot start any Gnome program as root. I try tdesu, gksu, etc. I have even tried starting programs from a root shell, but it doesn't work. The Gnome sudo gui rejects my password every time, even though I am sure of my password. The sudo problem is another matter, and I will deal with that separately. (Other people besides myself have mentioned this problem, by the way. My TDE and KDE programs seem to work fine when run as root.) What I want now is to resize my partition. That is my concern at the moment. What I need is something that will run from a live CD, so that I can resize my root partition without destroying information on my home folder or reinstalling my entire system. Anyway, I did find the free version (I think) of Parted Magic on SourceForge. https://downloads.sourceforge.net/partedmagic/pmagic_2013_02_28.iso Here are some more recent versions that I found; these are links to a Russian university site: http://ftp.psu.ru/linux/partedmagic/ And then there is this page, which looks legit, and offers checksums for verification: https://archive.org/details/pmagic_2015_08_12 I am just wondering if there is some reason to avoid Parted Magic (now that I have found it) and go with Slacko, as recommended by Nik. Bill