Re: QTparted misreporting partition usage

From: redvers (spam_at_your.peril)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:13:04 +0000 (UTC)

Robert Glueck 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
>
>
>
> My way out at the time was to get myself a second hard disk reserved for
> Linux rather than trying to resize the first drive. WinXP gives you a
> graphical display of the state of fragmentation of your Windows
> partition. Take a look at that and see if there are any files way out
> to the right, toward the upper end of the partition. Too bad you didn't
> do this before you defragmented. If you do see some files out there you
> may want to run another disk defragmentation. If they are still there
> after that run, then WinXP may indeed refuse to move them. Perhaps a
> non-Microsoft defragmentation utility (e.g. Norton?) would do a better job.
>
I thought of this and ckecked before I defragged, and yes there were
some files towards the end of the disk, but they moved after the defrag
and weren't the cause of the problem. I think it must have been down to
a bug in the Knoppix version of QTparted I was using, since the
SystemRescueCD version would allow be to resize as much as I liked.

>
> Good luck!
>
> Robert

Thanks for everyones helpful advice. This is the first time I've
visitted this forum and will hopefully be back for more.

cheers again

Perseus

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