Thanks for your quick reaction Yuval. On Monday 24 July 2006 19:42, Yuval Fledel wrote: > > The two are completely similar, except that the first is successful > > and the second leads to corruption. > > I noticed that the original partition was not the same in both cases. > example: > Vista: /dev/sda1 * 1 1217 9775521 7 > HPFS/NTFS > 2000: /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 > HPFS/NTFS
No that is not correct (Vista will not even install into less than 16 MB :-) From the log: Current volume size: 20972564992 bytes (20973 MB) Current device size: 20972568576 bytes (20973 MB) /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20481024 7 HPFS/NTFS That is the same in both cases. > > The corruption only becomes clear _after_ the physical partition is > > resized too; resizing the partition back to its original size does > > not get the partition back. ntfsfix does not help either. > > Note that during the manual resize operation I used fdisk, but the > > installer uses libparted; the corruption occurs with both. > > If the partition was mountable before changing the physical partition, > it is most likely that the bug is in the partitionning tool, and not > in ntfsresize. > > I know that Szaka (ntfsresize's author) tested ntfsresize on Windows > Vista's partitions, and it worked. He is in vocation at the moment and > can not reply. > > Can you check the partitioning again, and this time with sectors as > unit like ntfsresize states (use the "u" command in fdisk). This one > is the most common cause for the problem at hand. Hmm. I did not note anything about that in the FAQ (happy to be proven wrong), and it still feels like a regression because with NTFS 1.2 my method did work correctly. However, I will give it a try. It also feels strange because I did not change the starting sector and the end sector was well bigger than the new size of the NTFS partition. Also note that it means that 2 major linux partitioning tools (fdisk and parted) would be wrong. > It is always good to check with the latest version. I'd appriciate if > you check with 1.13.1 instead of an older version. Ah, I see 1.13.1 has just hit unstable. I will test with that and let you know.
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