Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable
[Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs]
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote:
> I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win
> XP.
>
> Well, here is another clue: qtparted reports, that support for ntfs
> filesystem is not implemented yet.
This message is from libparted, not from qtparted. Qtparted is a frontend
to several utilitites and libraries. Ntfs related things are done by utils
from ntfsprogs via qtparted, not by libparted.
> Trying to do a resize, it ends with the error-message: Filesystem check
> failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches.
This means that your NTFS was corrupted by the Windows driver. However
qtparted doesn't show you the full ntfsresize diagnostic message which is:
"This software has detected that your NTFS is corrupted. Please run chkdsk /f
on Windows then reboot it TWICE! Important, don't forget the /f parameter!
Afterwards you can run ntfsresize. No modification was made to NTFS."
> I just ran a filesystem check from Win XP, it ended succesfully, that
> is, reporting no errors.
You didn't use the /f option of chkdsk and in these cases chkdsk doesn't
find, report and fix all problems.
> I didn't mean to say, that it is the same thing. In terms of effect =>
> not being able to change the Win XP partition-size, but perhaps it is
> two different problems.
Your Windows messed up your NTFS and Linux won't resize it until you fix
it first.
> I just tried another time with sarge-installer, and at least I'm not
> able to find out how to change the size of the partition with the
> installer.
>
> Some one on this list gave me theimpression, that this was possible.
Yes, it's possible since Oct 1, 2004 but the method is quite unintuitive
[many people are confused about it].
It's something like this [note, this is for Ubuntu but as I remember they
just use the Debian way, unchanged]:
When the [Partitioning disks] screen appears do the following steps:
1. Choose the "Manually edit partition table" option.
2. Choose the NTFS partition you want to resize.
3. Choose the "Size:" line.
4. Choose <Yes> if you are asked about "Write changes to disk and
resize the partition?".
5. Enter the new size.
6. Wait patiently until the resize process frees the needed space for
installation.
Szaka
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