On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:17, Ross Drummond wrote: > At the preliminary meeting for the install fest repartitioning ntfs disk > partitions was discussed. > > I have just reinstalled Windows 2000 so decided to test the ntfsresize > utility. > > I have good news and bad news; > > The good news: It works > > The bad news: It takes an awfully long time, and the maintainer has just > issued a critical warning against using it with 2.6 kernel based > distributions. Yes, but the warning does talk about a recovery method which as far as I can see is a satisfactory solution to the problem.
> The computer: A dell with a 600 MHz processor, 128 Mb ram, 10Gb hard disk, > with a 5Gb ntfs primary partition. The operating system is Windows 2000 Pro > SP3. > > It was a completely new install with no software other than the OS loaded. > The disk was defragmented immediately after 1st boot. > > Method: The computer was booted with a Toms Root & Boot floppy. I used the > ntfsresize saticly linked binary on a floppy. > > I ran the program with the --info argument which checked the partition and > made repartitioning suggestions, followed by running the --no-action > argument to test, followed by the resizing operation for real > > The application reported that 832Mb of a 5Gb partition was used and would > shift 232 Mb to reduce a 5Gb partition to 2Gb. > > This operation took 3 hours to complete. This is obviously unacceptable! Have you _any_ idea why? Have there been any changes to ntfs between MS 2000 and XP which could account for this? Other people - robert - report 35 minuites. Which version of ntfsresize did you use? Tom's Root and Boot is / was fairly recently / available in two versions. There is a pretty old 'stable' version and a much more recent in development one. > fdisk was then used to delete the old ntfs partition and create a new > smaller one. > > Conclusions: > > The time taken to complete this operation will cause serious time delay > problems at the install fest. Yes we have to find a reason for this situation. > The maintainer reports that a combination of certain bios settings, 2.6 > kernel, and some disk partitioning program's can make Windows operating > systems unbootable. Problems have been reported with Mandrake 10, SUSE 9.1 > and Fedora 2 distos. > > If we are to offer disk repartitioning at the install fest we have further > investigations to make > > ntfsreze home page; > > http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html Please could you join the discussion on the Installfest list? Subscribe here:- http://trash.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/installfest_trash.co.nz -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
