Re: QTparted misreporting partition usage

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:11:01 GMT

Ian Hutchinson wrote:
> perseus wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm planning to install FC4 on my laptop (dell i6000) as a dual boot
>> with the currently installed windows XP. However, when I come to
>> partition the drive using QTparted via Knoppix CD, QTparted misreports
>> the usage of the Windows partition(NTFS) saying that ~30Gb of ~33Gb
>> are used, when running du shows that only 9Gb are used. I tried
>> defragmenting the disk, but this made no difference. Has anyone else
>> come across this problem before?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> perseus
>
>
> Knoppix partitioning tools were too limited for me when I tried the same
> thing:
> http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/tp41setup.html
>
> Just running the installer for the first system I used was a much more
> satisfactory result. I don't know in detail about FC4, whether it can
> handle shrinking your windows partition, though.
>
> Ian Hutchinson

FWIW, I'd only trust Partition Magic for resizing NTFS partitions. It's
written for the native platform, so you know it pretty much works. Since
MS, in their infinite wisdom, have seen fit not to release the
specifications for the filesystem in their entirety (except to
PowerQuest, since absorbed into the Symantec family, and even to them
under an NDA), what's available for Linux regarding NTFS partition
handling (even /reading/) is entirely guesswork. 

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