Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > If I understand you right, you want to say that partman rounded down the > value, so there is bug in partman. This is what you wrote: > > "It told me the minimum size was 3.2 gb" > > but you didn't explain who is "it". Partman or ntfsresize? Ntfsresize > tells the value in bytes and in MB rounded up, not in GB. And if you made > the conversion to GB then you didn't do it correctly. As I said, I think partman has a bug here. Regular users of debian-boot have context that you're lacking, so I didn't explain every little detail to them. > On volumes with millions of files or other interesting characteristics the > NTFS consistency check can take time and people want progress bar. I won't > disable the consistency check because there are a lot of already corrupted > NTFS and people need to know that in these cases they must run chkdsk /f > first to be able to resize safely later on. It's very dangerous to resize > an already corrupted filesystem and NTFS tends to corrupt relatively > easily. Of course the progress bar can be optional or sorted out other > way, too. Of course since your current interface encourages grepping ntfsresize's output, it's unlikely that the user will see it at all. Especially if there's a GUI involved. -- see shy jo
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