Re: QTparted misreporting partition usage

From: jeff (jeff_at_invalid.spam)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:45:45 -0700

Jim wrote:
> 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.
>
This is a very much undeserved slight to the developers of ntfsresize
(used by QTParted and other front-ends). Look at
<http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html>. Ntfresize is
very reliable, and has been for quite some time.

Jeff

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