Public bug reported: I used GParted to shrink a 400G partition on an external USB3 HD, to 200G. The filesystem was ext4.
I got bored and annoyed by the lack of a progress indicator. I clicked cancel, disregarding the warning that this was a REALLY BAD IDEA :). I then closed GParted. When I tried to fsck the partition, I found that something had an exclusive lock on the partition. It turns out that resize2fs was still running, using CPU and performing IO. (There are no IO errors in the kernel log / dmesg). I can understand if GParted was reluctant to kill resize2fs :). However in that case it should have warned that the operation was not actually cancelled. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gparted 0.11.0-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Feb 13 11:46:00 2013 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gparted UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124034 Title: Cancelling resize operation leaves resize2fs running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1124034/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs