Package: debian-installer Version: Etch Beta 3 Severity: important Installing Debian Etch on my HP Pavilion DV6119US laptop, I naturally had to resize the NTFS partition to make room. Using the non-graphical installer, I chose to manually edit the partition table, to resize the main NTFS partition, and to make it 25 GB. There was a pause, and then the installer returned to the previous screen without changing anything. No matter what resizing I tried, the installer would seem to do nothing.
Getting a hint from the debian-user mailing list, I booted Knoppix and manually ran "ntfsresize -i" against /dev/sda1. It responded: ntfsresize v1.13.1-WIP (libntfs 9:0:0) Device name : /dev/sda1 NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 66534257152 bytes (66535 MB) Current device size: 66534257664 bytes (66535 MB) Checking filesystem consistency ... 100.00 percent completed Accounting clusters ... Cluster accounting failed at 3147732 (0x3007d4): extra cluster in $Bitmap Filesystem check failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches. ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE! The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired. Following ntfsresize's advice about chkdsk worked. After doing that, the installer was able to resize the partition flawlessly. I suspect you don't have a routine to trap that particular error message, so it just gets ignored. It should instead be passed along to the user, because it's important. One side note: I had to run ntfsresize from Knoppix because if I switched to VT2 (alt-F2) in the installer and ran any command that accessed the filesystem (e.g. df, less, ntfsresize) the installer would freeze unrecoverably 1-3 seconds later. Thank you for all your work on Debian. Let me know if I can help you resolve this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
