Resizing an NTFS partition........

[Sean Hammond]

This is interesting. Personally, I've found that the graphical
partition tool on Dapper Live (I believe it's just GParted embedded in
the the Espresso installer) works very badly indeed. It almost always
gives me an error to the effect of "One of the partitions you tried to
edit was mounted, so changes could not be applied" even though I never
mount the partitions, or any partition on the same device. Once or
twice it turns out the changes were in fact successfully applied
despite this error message, but usually nothing applies. Fortunately
it never damages anything just fails to apply the requestred changes.

I got this with the Dapper Live system, but also just using GParted on
Breezy and Hoary, on live and installed systems. I'd guess I've had
this problem on about half a dozen completely different machines.

On the other hand, I've found that the text-mode partition editor on
the text-install CDs, on all releases of Ubuntu, has never failed on
the very same machines.

Seems bizarre to me that others haven't had this experience.

On 4/29/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> .........just works. :-)
>
> I couldn't believe it.. For an operating system that doesn't allow you
> to save a simple file to an NTFS drive "because it's not open & free but
> patented by evil MS who doesn't release the specifications, boo hoo hoo
> hoo, so we can not be 100000000000000000000000% sure that it would work
> so we're not doing it at all, so there. snif.".
>
> Anyway, from that kind of system I was pleasantly surprised that it
> WOULD do a considerably more complex partition resizing operation
> without any fuss whatsoever.. :)  And I know there were still files
> physically in the area that would be 'cut' so it must have moved those
> around first..
>
> It IS a good idea to go into Windows first and error-check and defrag
> the volume and create as much space as possible. But after that you just
> boot the Dapper Live CD to resize the partition using included Gnome
> Partition Editor, then Install dapper on the empty space created.
>
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
>
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