Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 20:42:12 JST Zergling_man
   (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0 2000GB
   Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance: 34s % 2048s != 0s
   Ignore/Cancel? i
   (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0B 2000GB
   Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
   
   I think parted will always be a mystery to me.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 20:42:11 JST 翠星石

     in reply to
     @Zergling_man If it's too hard to do it by hand, just use gparted.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 20:49:35 JST 翠星石

     in reply to
     @Zergling_man gparted can ask for the root password just fine and you can just run it as roog.
   • Embed this notice
     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 20:49:36 JST Zergling_man

     in reply to

     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki I can't lol, I don't have a... Way for GUI programs to prompt for elevated privileges.
     And since gparted is the only thing that I ever want this for, it's easier to use fdisk.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 21:03:22 JST 翠星石

     in reply to
     @Zergling_man >wayland breaks everything.
     Many such cases.
     
     DISPLAY=:0 gparted as root works fine on Xorg.
   • Embed this notice
     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 21:03:23 JST Zergling_man

     in reply to

     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki >gparted can ask for the root password just fine
     Incorrect:
     yun-wuxin:[wisknort]:~$ gparted
     localuser:root being added to access control list
     Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found.
     localuser:root being removed from access control list
     
     It defers in some way, and the DE is expected to pick it up from there, and hyprland defers that to the user to sort out, and I never bothered to do so. (I believe I just need to install some package, but see above for why I haven't.)
     
     >you can just run it as roog.
     Also incorrect:
     yun-wuxin:[wisknort]:~$ sudo gparted
     [sudo] password for wisknort:
     Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
     
     
     (gpartedbin:21653): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:51:57.774: cannot open display: :0
     
     I don't know how it comes out with a different auth error, or why, but I assume that's not actually breaking it, I assume it is the display issue, and that's non-trivial to fix, especially with the extra layer of abstraction involved (xwayland).
     Although, interestingly, unsetting DISPLAY manages to suppress the authorisation error (what), but it still can't open a null display.