Re: Problems resizing NTFS partition

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:51:05 -0800, AN O'Nymous wrote this:


noi wrote:

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:58:11 -0800, AN O'Nymous wrote this:

Hi. I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition from 120GB -> 80GB so that
I can install clusterknoppix on it. The drive has 66.72GB used and
47.16GB unused space.

The gparted bootable iso (latest version) gives an error message at
the "run simulation" bit:

ntfsresize -P -force -force /dev/hda1 -s 12227569776 -no-action (2x
force flag...sic?)

ntfsresize v1.13.0 (libntfs 9:0:0)
Device name: /dev/hda1
NTFS volume version 3.1
Cluster size: 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 12351072224 (123511MB) Current device size:
12351072224 (123511MB) New volume size: 1227656192 (122276MB)

Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters...
Space in use: 71645 MB (58.0%)

Collectiong resizing constraints...
Needed relocations: 196131 (804MB)
Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check t Windows boot time...
Resetting $Logfile...(this might take a while) Relocating needed
data...


ERROR: Extended record needed (1032 > 1024), not yet supported!
Please try to free less space.

I tried to free 41GB, 20GB, 10GB, 5GB and finally 1GB (as you see
above). All to no avail.

What do I need to do to fix this?

Thanks.

Not sure what is happening but I used the GParted Live-CD 80mb to
delete a 9.3gb FAT32 and add it to a 76gb NTFS partition. In my case
I deleted the 9gb logical and extended, then used resize-move on the
NTFS to resize it to 84gb. You want to decrease the size so unless
your HD was created using 3rd party partitioning software to bypass the
system bios it should work.

Print the instructions from the GParted website.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm

Yeah I chkdsk and defrag the HD before trying the Gparted.

I didn't run defrag, but I did run chkdsk and fixed file structure
problems that were causing Gparted to complain. IIRC Gparted doesn't
need you to defrag it.

Yes, you are correct about the defrag.
"ntfsresize -P -force -force /dev/hda1 -s 12227569776 -no-action" looks
wrong with "-force -force" shouldn't it be " --force "?

Try the basics again boot the Gparted live cd. I used the gui interface
but since you use CLI then

ntfsresize --info --verbose /dev/hda1

ntfsresize --no-action -s 80G /dev/hda1

ntfsresize -s 80G /dev/hda1

ntfsresize --info --force /dev/hda1

ntfsresize help:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html#chkdsk
.

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