From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EbA0i-00005O-Fs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:02:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD51Wbt009381; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:01:32 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAD4vfet028618 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:57:41 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so902176nza for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:57:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=GBDSAzPcTsgOGxC59ycC4xLiXa8JyqTCCTNHkMoNU5DM6u0Cg6eiU5lzZAp4mcoUNwAknWoxnCYBBTRrkiowmtQZHT+eVGubjDrdN75H6BrEw9oLb3HeSEkOe0XXi9QNZafTUzRQJGhU+PQ8bVzNWDf+MoDcnT4rqclrNdmYsjk= Received: by 10.36.221.32 with SMTP id t32mr2755237nzg; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:57:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from paradise.home ( [202.177.154.137]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm1043722nzo.2005.11.12.20.57.39; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:57:40 -0800 (PST) From: abhay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:28:35 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> <4376AF59.2040909@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4376AF59.2040909@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3825791.QSJUrj3nDs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511131028.35848.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 88fb9463-9735-46e9-bfde-9b10b244cda2 X-Archives-Hash: 9238ba1224b64e323cfc41d8205efda0 --nextPart3825791.QSJUrj3nDs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: > Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have > read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this > being the boot partition. > > Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f": > > The type of the file system is NTFS. > Cannot lock current drive. > > Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another > process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be > checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y > > This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. > > > Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would > be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the > message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. > Weird. > > -Pingveno Looks like some how dirty bit setting has been disabled on your drive which= is=20 essential for running chkdsk at boot time. Try running fsutil to query/set= =20 the dirty bit on your drive. To read more about fsutil head here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serv= erHelp/740cb38b-66dc-41e2-9f0b-7f2816c7c2ca.mspx Abhay --nextPart3825791.QSJUrj3nDs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDdsf7xrDNZ6sJF8cRArU9AJ9MOM0yXaIDlu+LYZt0vpLdwOkVUQCbBYiu qr/Vlsct6sj846p8Radwei4= =wbib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3825791.QSJUrj3nDs-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list