[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

[Pingveno <pingveno@comcast.net>]

abhay wrote:
> 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":
>> <output>
>> 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.
>> </output>
>>
>> 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 
> essential for running chkdsk at boot time. Try running fsutil to query/set 
> the dirty bit on your drive. To read more about fsutil head here
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/740cb38b-66dc-41e2-9f0b-7f2816c7c2ca.mspx
> 
> Abhay
Strange. Even when I set the dirty bit and restart, no check was done. I 
think it's time to call up IBM. Maybe one of their wonderful 
contraptions is stopping chkdsk at startup >_<

-Pingveno

-Pingveno

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