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 1Eb8WZ-0003M7-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:27:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD3Nt7a010471; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:23:55 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 jAD3Dnif017381 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:13:50 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([216.148.227.117]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb8JQ-0004aq-PJ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:13:48 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-67-160-130-118.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.160.130.118]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005111303134401300ik4o4e>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:13:45 +0000 Message-ID: <4376AF59.2040909@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:13:29 -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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing References: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cf48c29c-eae8-4d80-a42b-fbc3e1517f9c X-Archives-Hash: f06d80a37130d2fdd29a7c59cdd0eb56 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 Grimaldy Soto wrote: > I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main > partition, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a > dismount, anyway why you no resize the partition with a partition > manager like partition magic. > > Its better and faster and course lets dangerous that making inside from > linux. > > On 11/12/05, *Pingveno* < pingveno@comcast.net > > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > "We must agree that the beauty of a work of art will always remain a > mystery, in other words, we can never be absolutely sure 'how it's made.' > We must at all costs preserve this magic which is peculiar to music and to > which, by its nature, music is of all arts the most receptive." > -Claude Debussy- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list