On May 10, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
How does one resize an NTFS partition made with Windows XP Pro?
I was so sure I had resized NTFS partitions using qtparted or parted. But now that I tried in on a fresh install of Windows XP Pro with NTFS, both partition editors complain that they don't support NTFS.
So, I looked into ranish ( http://www.ranish.com/part/ ), but that doesn't look promising. Can anyone recommend a partition editor, one that can resize NTFS partitions?
OK. So, I'm not crazy in thinking that qtparted could resize NTFS partitions:
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsresize.html
So, I ran ntfsresize from the command line, which returned an error:
# ntfsresize -nv --size 5G /dev/hda1 ntfsresize v1.9.4 Using locale 'C'. NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 6448587264 bytes (6449 MB) Current device size: 6448587264 bytes (6449 MB) New volume size : 4999995904 bytes (5000 MB) Checking filesystem consistency ... 100.00 percent completed Accounting clusters ... Space in use : 2213 MB (34.3%) Collecting shrinkage constrains ... ERROR: Your disk has bad sectors (manufacturing faults or dying disk). This situation isn't supported yet.
Hmmm. Seems to work under Windows. So, is the disk actually good, but ntfsresize doesn't know it? Or is the disk in fact bad, and Windows doesn't know it?
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