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 1Eb6AY-0002I4-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:56:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD0tHNY006028; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:55:17 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAD0nt6c001236 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:49:56 GMT Received: from [63.240.77.82] (helo=sccrmhc12.comcast.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb64B-0004PV-Jl for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:49:55 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-67-160-130-118.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.160.130.118]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005111300492601200244g6e>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:49:27 +0000 Message-ID: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:49:16 -0800 From: Pingveno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) 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 CC: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a013f843-f0fe-4f19-887a-56d8986790e5 X-Archives-Hash: e10b72c4706e333fe8259031d46aebf1 I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant). After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I needed to use chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. Easy. Of course, chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS system. Okay, so I do what it recommends to me: let the checking be run after a reboot. None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any tricks to con it into working? -Pingveno P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list